Category: African American

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois both supported the progression of Civil Rights for African Americans and are recognized as the dominant leaders and civil right activists of the African American community. However, unlike Du Bois who advocated in favor of rapid changes with immediate effects, Washington preached in favor of more accommodating changes…

Table of contents Booker T. Washington: The Advocate of Accommodation and Economic Advancement W.E.B. Du Bois: The Advocate of Civil Rights and Political Activism Contemporary Relevance Works Cited The post-reconstruction era in America witnessed the emergence of two prominent figures, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, who proposed divergent strategies for addressing racial issues.…

The America’s “world poet” and a modern-day successor to writers like Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare, Walt Whitman was a prominent American poet, teacher, journalist, and also a nursing volunteer during the Civil War. He was a voracious reader and was largely self-educated. Whitman’s poetry was innovative for its verse style and for the way…

Salvation as liberation is a key theme in Liberation and Black Theology. I will point out later that the reading of Scripture can lead to the theme of freedom for poor and marginalized, which is the bringing of salvation into the present and the future. “Salvation is more than quantitative.” Salvation I will posit in…

Table of contents The Party Founders Education Status Community Activities 10 Point Program and Platform The Black Panther Uniform Seale v. Hoffman Religion Alliances Conclusion Works Cited Perhaps one of the most acclaimed and controversial radical group of all time, the Black Panther Party were “Young, brash and eloquent”, making them so feared in the…

The astonishing period of the Black Arts Movement built up the idea of a persuasive and masterful obscurity that made questionable however noteworthy associations, for example, the Black Panther Party. The Black Arts Movement required ‘an unequivocal association among craftsmanship and legislative issues’ (Smith). This development made the most pervasive period in dark workmanship history…

Table of contents Introduction Impact on the world Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Jackie Robinson was an important and influential figure in history that had a positive impact in America’s sports as a whole because he challenged racism. Jackie Robinson is widely known as the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. He played…

In the world there are many problems in the 20th century where African Americans were being mistreated by the Jim Crow laws, the Klu Klux Klan and to be more direct they lynched African Americans in the United States. Hitler and the Nazis were persecuting Jews because of their religious beliefs. Hitler slaughtered millions of…

The challenges that African American women face as African American athletes is that they have more trouble competing in sports because some people think that women athletes are not as exciting as the men. The African American women have to deal with their sexuality issues and racism that come from people online and in person…

Why is Month important? Essay on the relevance of Black History in present day is one which is of greater importance and awareness. The Black History month is one which is annually celebrated with the remembrance of the struggles and achievements gained by the African Americans within history. Van De Mieroop (2016) states that ‘In…