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· 2,100 entries from 1493 to the present. · Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, and more that bring history to life. · Noted contributors that include Madeleine Albright, Henry Ford, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Edgar Allan Poe. · Photos and multimedia that engage students.

William Harper wrote this passage about the morality of slavery in the 1930s. 70 years after the abolishment of slavery and in the period where IM starts college, the were still radicals who believed that African Americans were so inferioir that they deserved to be enslaved. In his article, Harper brings up the point that it is a part of human nature for the superior to conquer the inferior.

This compilation is based around the book Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings, and co-produced and annotated by that volume's editor, Robert G. O'Meally. The idea is to assemble various pieces of music with some connection to Ellison or his writings, with the specific threads -- a direct comment Ellison might have made on a track, for instance, or a song that's referred to in one of his stories -- explained in O'Meally's notes.

This is a track listing of an album composed of tracks that influenced Ellison in his work. An aspiring musician who went to school to study it, Ellison also grew close with many famous musicians in Harlem. These artists, including Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were an essential part of a thriving social scene in Harlem while Ellison wrote invisible man. The last track is a recording of Ellison's 1964 address at the Library of Congress. He speaks about "blind men on corners" and the blacks who pretend to be part of a successful white society, people whom Malcolm X spoke so strongly against years later.

Talks about the psychology behind cults, which can be useful information with regard to the Brotherhood in Invisible Man and the National of Islam.

A study shows that many white people are able to identify blurry pictures of gorillas easier when first shown pictures of black people, demonstrating that many white people do not view black people as being on their same level.

A study by the University of Minnesota and Penn State that asserts that the number two cause of domestic violence is the perceived culture of oppression that many African Americans have and pass on to others.

This quote gives a broad example of what blacks need to do to overcome the racial oppresssion. This key to the education of both men as it leads to their rebirths

· 2,100 entries from 1493 to the present. · Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, and more that bring history to life. · Noted contributors that include Madeleine Albright, Henry Ford, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Edgar Allan Poe. · Photos and multimedia that engage students.

This article views the dust bowl from an unbiased point of view. The text says that the federal government was quite involved with the aid of those suffering in the dust bowl for not the sake of the people, but for the sake of the economic dependency of the united states