Analysis Of Let Nobody Turn Us Back, By Dr. Dwayne Mack

This essay discusses the correlation of themes and topics from Dr. Dwayne Mack’s book Black Spokane and connects it to key aspects and themes from Let Nobody Turn Us Around, and from African Americans: A Concise History. All three texts encompasses important aspects of African American oppression, the fight for civil and equal rights. During the time of slavery, many blacks were treated horribly and were not treated equally to whites. Many white Americans’ embraced American ethnologist study which stated that white Americans were a superior race and that African Americans are a lesser race (Hine, p. 190). This idealistic theology resided heavily in the South, blacks were segregated, oppressed, and lynched. In a span of approximately forty years after 1889 over 3,745 African Americans were lynched. Blacks were falsely accused of harassing white women, and in result angry riots would gather and lynch numbers of African Americans. Most of the time lynching riots were used as a way to oppress blacks because of their economic success. An example of this was Thomas Moss, a co-owner of a grocery store in Memphis. Thomas and his three friends were arrested for conspiracy, and while …show more content…
This group included intellectuals of clergyman, journalist, and lawyers. The Declaration of Principles of the Niagara Movement presented an alternative to the Tuskegee philosophy and help defend the rights of African American. The Niagara Movement ultimately helped set into motion the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Marable p. 120). In the Black Spokane Dr. Mack wrote about how the NAACP in the 1950s continued to support legal strategies to fight discrimination, the help that NAACP provided to challenge federal courts in the quest for racial justice. Ultimately this allowed the civil rights movement to gain momentum in the fight for justice (Mack, p.