If there were no written documents of our African history, could we tell the story of back then, according to how we as a people live today? As African American people the answer is no because as African American people, we need to understand where we came from, so we can understand where we are going. In the article “Beyond the Written Document: Looking for Africa in African American Culture,” explains how important history is and all of the information it can provide. With historians in the past to historians today, we can understand where we came from. In this particular article, learning about were African Americans came from, culture, slavery, agriculture, and what happened beyond the written document would improve many African American individuals today.…
Throughout this time, urban downtown areas began declining due to the large move to suburban areas, they wanted to restrict access in these suburban…
In the post-Reconstruction era, after 1880, African Americans experienced disenfranchisement and a denial of justice. Nine out of 10 of the 6.5 million African Americans in the United States lived in the South, with 80 percent of those Southerners living in rural areas (Bair, 2000). Many areas of the South promised African Americans both political liberty and justice. However, at the same time promises were being made, African Americans saw their political rights increasingly under attack.…
Even though there were not many, some African people did go to school instead of just working all the time for Europeans. In the schools that these children went to they learned that European culture was better than African Culture and they learn this from a young age and this will stick with them. A. Adu Boahen, author of Africans Perspectives on Colonialism mentioned how education was like and some of what they were taught about. “They were people who worshiped European culture equating it with civilization, and looked down on their own culture”(Document 2). Some African people had become more like the Europeans because they thought that European culture was more civilized than their own since that was what they were taught since they were…
From the beginning of recorded history, groups and communities of all kinds have flourished and altered for a tremendous amount of causes with unpredictable effects. It is argued whether African Americans had a transformation in identity or not when the 1920's came around. It is not an opinion, but fact that the African Americans changed both historically and culturally in the American timeline. To begin with, African Americans progressed historically in the 1920's.…
One of the many privileges and freedoms we have as Americans is the freedom to pick the future president of our country. This year our final candidates we had to choose from was either Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton. By the end of the race Hilary had more support from the people, so naturally we thought that Hilary was going to win the election. However, when the results of the Election came back, and we found out that Donald J. Trump won it got me wondering how did a person who had the least support of people than his rival win. from all the research conducted it is obvious that Donald Trump won because: of the Support from White Americans, he also promised to bring jobs back to the working middle class Americans, and The Support of Suburban White Women.…
America is no stranger to racial prejudice. Ever since the end of the Civil War in the spring of 1865, the U.S. has always had the trouble to fully cope with the mixing of different races. For over more than a century had whites proclaimed themselves as the “Superior” race. On December 24, 1865, a group of six veterans of the confederate army founded The Ku Klux Klan. A secret society based on the ideals of white supremacy.…
During the white flight migration of the mid-19th century, many white families fled their urban neighborhoods to avoid various levels of racial integration. When they left the cities for the suburbs they took with them their money and businesses. Their departure created a ripple effect. As they moved out, crime moved in. Property values shrunk and with that tax revenue also declined.…
My own culture (give it a name): African-American culture, Black-America culture A different culture: “The Aka or Bayaka, also BiAka, Babenzele are a nomadic Mbenga, pygmy people. They lived in southwestern Central African Republic and the Brazzaville region of the Republic of the Congo” Bullock, K., Crawford, S. L., & Tennstedt, S. L. (2003). Sleeping Black infants living in the U.S are more than likely to fall asleep with a caregiver present, to have their beds in the parents’ room, and will spend all or part of the night co-sleeping with their parents. There’s the daily routine of bathing, playtime and storytelling.…
The 1920s was known as the roaring twenties or the new Negro Era. During this time period African Americans began to express themselves through dance and music. They were creating a culture for themselves in America. This culture contrasted the ideas that African Americans were savages and unruly. This decade also brought to light some of the grim realities of the hardships and racism African Americans faced in America.…
The greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa,Oklahoma housed one of the most successful black economies in American history. The area is now commonly referred to as’’ The Black Wall Street’’. Most of the business and homes were burned down in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The team’’Nero Wall Street’’was coined by none other than famed African-American author and educator, Booker T Washington.…
The era of social and economic Reconstruction in the South took place during 1865 through to 1877. It was a great failure with too many clashing factors for it so become any sort of success, which was what brought it all to an end after only about ten years. There were too many opposing elements in most minor and major political fields. Plus it was being paired with much economic hardships, the tension following the bloody Civil War, and the attempts to try to redesign the entire United State’s broken social structure, especially in still very racist South. All of which were slowly but definitely destroyed the plans of a great future that Reconstruction was meant to create for everyone of the United States.…
Back in the 1960’s Black Americans still could not enjoy the same privileges as whites, they were often discriminated, segregated from public spaces, and humiliated. They were seen and treated as less and their basic rights of equal education, equal opportunity and the right to vote were denied. The first basic right being denied to blacks in the 1960’s was the right of equal education. Without an education how can African Americans be expected to grow up into citizens that will contribute to the community ?.…
In the early 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama was very segregated , which means that black and white people were separated from one another . Several African-American leaders , such as Martin Luther King Jr ,organized a mass protest to settle the issue of segregation The protests began April 3rd, 1963. Many boycotted downtown stores , churches , and eateries . The adult protestors decided to include children in their protests .On…
Louis, public housing was used as a segregation tool and played a huge role in the decline of Pruitt-Igoe. (sounds like the film) The Housing Act of 1949, Title I, the federal urban redevelopment program, was created to get rid of the slums and build better living conditions; however, most of the slum areas demolished, were in high demand locations. This meant those spaces were hardly ever replaced with affordable housing, forcing former residence to flee into areas of high poverty throughout the city. (put attribution here) “Given the high correlation between poverty and race, the combination of racial discrimination and the limited availability of affordable housing has had the effect of thrusting the poor into (or creating) neighborhoods with concentrated pockets of extreme poverty.…