Category: African American

Racial profiling is the act of targeting an individual for the suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, or nationality. Imagine being wrongfully committed of a crime that you did not commit. Imagine being followed around because the color of your skin is too dark. Imagine being watched carefully in a retail…

Russel Brokers’ main argument in The American , 1865-1950: Black Agency and People of Good Will concerned ‘people of good will’ black and white individuals who acted in African Americans’ interests regardless of their motives. He states that during the Civil Rights Movement people of both races had gotten involved with groups such as NAACP…

Imperialism is defined as one country’s domination of the political, economic, and social life of another country. In the late 1800s, Europeans colonized countries, traded slaves, gold, and many other various resources. One of the countries the Europeans colonized was Africa since Africa had an adequate amount of resources and raw materials that the Europeans…

African-Americans served in the civil war, because of this they had to of had some sort of effect on the war. In this essay, I will be showing how, and giving multiple examples of how African-Americans indeed affected the civil war. This essay will go through three main topics, African-Americans in the Confederate side, African-Americans…

On January 31, 1865 the 13th amendment was passed abolishing slavery in the United States. Even though slavery was abolished this did not end discrimination for African Americans. States continued to construct laws making it harder for African Americans to be equal. In 1896, a man named Homer Plessy decided to put one of those…

Imagine running for your life while leading 300 slaves in the middle of the night not knowing what might happen to you or them. A black African American named Harriet Tubman would shock the world by not just her bravery, but risking her life to save her people. Harriet Tubman made a dramatic change in…

A little African American girl stares out of a window, just as she puts her masters baby to bed. She has no dreams of becoming a great savior, known by all. She just wants what is best for her and her family. Someone yells out her name, known by few, and she turns from the…

The Harlem Renaissance or New Negro Movement was instigated through Alain Locke. In March 1925 he edited an issue of the Survey Graphic magazine entitled Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro, followed by an anthology titled The New Negro: An Interpretation. This anthology was abounding with the illustrations of European artists such as Winold Reiss…

Table of contents Introduction Background of Emmett Till’s Case The trial of Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam Emmett Till’s case today Reflection and Conclusion Introduction Emmett Till’s profound impact on the Civil Rights Movement and the history of African American freedom cannot be overstated. His tragic story reverberates through time as a symbol of both…

“When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven”. Harriet Tubman was an important African American in…