Self-Help (Racial Uplift)

Self- Help (Racial Uplift) refers to the efforts of African Americans to redefine the trying times in which they lived through education, economic development and religious/ secular organizational life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is significant because the educated blacks had the responsibility to reform the character and manage the behavior of the black population. While doing this, they battled stereotypes by emphasizing class differences among blacks.
These highlight the struggles of blacks after being freed. For decades, African Americans have been belittled, brainwashed and oppressed, but after being educated they discover their worth. This means they had to obliterate the negative images painted of