During the semester we have read several text from “Harlem Renaissance” such as the “Returning Solider” by W. E. B. Du Bois is one of the text, that I will talk about on this essay. More on this paper will specifically focus on to inform college students as audience. W. E. B. Du BOIS’s “Returning Soldiers” is about African American soldiers coming back from war to America. These soldiers were recruited in large number in military to help France against Germany at that time. The core point of the text is that the soldiers return home only to a country that does not treat black soldiers equally among to their white counterparts. For this reason, the returning African American soldiers look upon America as a disgraceful place full of bigotry.
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E. B. Du Bois, an African American intellectual, whose call for racial equality marked him as a radical thinker in his era. W.E B Du Bois indirectly shown many movements or other activities that has connection to his text. World War I is one of the most significant event, the writer reference to his text. Recognizing the significance of “World War I” is essential to developing a full understanding of modern African-American history and the struggle for black freedom. What began as a seemingly far off European conflict soon became an event with revolutionary intimation for the social, economic, and political future of black people. The war directly impacted all African Americans, male and female, northerner and southerner, soldier and civilian. Migration, military service, racial violence, and political protest combined to make the war years one of the most influential periods of the African-American experience. W. E. B. Du Bois has supported the camp as a crucible of "talented tenth" black leadership, manhood, and patriotism. He has a massive call for African-Americans to enlist in the army, because Du Bois believed that military service would go long way in helping them eventually claimed equal citizenship. In addition, as W.E.B Du Bois mentioned about African American soldiers were gathered to help French against Germany and in World War I French was fighting against Germany as well as other countries on …show more content…
Du Bois and Marcus Garvey lot of celebrities has also have engaged themselves in civil right movement Legendary performer Nina Simone sang a mix of jazz, blues and folk music in the 1950s and '60s, later enjoying a career resurgence in the '80s. A staunch Civil Rights activist, she was known for tunes like "Mississippi Goddam".
By the mid-1960s, Simone became known as the voice of the Civil Rights Movement. She wrote and sung a song named "Mississippi Goddam" at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in response to the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham church bombing that killed four young African-American girls. Listening to the song, it seems like Evers’s murder could have been a breaking point for Simone; an acknowledgment that things have gone past a point of no return and Simone having lost her ability to deal with the horrors around her. Here are the few lines from the song:
Can’t you see
E. B. Du Bois, an African American intellectual, whose call for racial equality marked him as a radical thinker in his era. W.E B Du Bois indirectly shown many movements or other activities that has connection to his text. World War I is one of the most significant event, the writer reference to his text. Recognizing the significance of “World War I” is essential to developing a full understanding of modern African-American history and the struggle for black freedom. What began as a seemingly far off European conflict soon became an event with revolutionary intimation for the social, economic, and political future of black people. The war directly impacted all African Americans, male and female, northerner and southerner, soldier and civilian. Migration, military service, racial violence, and political protest combined to make the war years one of the most influential periods of the African-American experience. W. E. B. Du Bois has supported the camp as a crucible of "talented tenth" black leadership, manhood, and patriotism. He has a massive call for African-Americans to enlist in the army, because Du Bois believed that military service would go long way in helping them eventually claimed equal citizenship. In addition, as W.E.B Du Bois mentioned about African American soldiers were gathered to help French against Germany and in World War I French was fighting against Germany as well as other countries on …show more content…
Du Bois and Marcus Garvey lot of celebrities has also have engaged themselves in civil right movement Legendary performer Nina Simone sang a mix of jazz, blues and folk music in the 1950s and '60s, later enjoying a career resurgence in the '80s. A staunch Civil Rights activist, she was known for tunes like "Mississippi Goddam".
By the mid-1960s, Simone became known as the voice of the Civil Rights Movement. She wrote and sung a song named "Mississippi Goddam" at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in response to the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham church bombing that killed four young African-American girls. Listening to the song, it seems like Evers’s murder could have been a breaking point for Simone; an acknowledgment that things have gone past a point of no return and Simone having lost her ability to deal with the horrors around her. Here are the few lines from the song:
Can’t you see