After learning about the different trials and tribulations that the black community as a whole had to endure in the past to provide a better future for the next generation, I would say that the twenty-first century American Negro in 2016 are strong, confident, and intelligent black men and women who used their gifts to bring about positive change within their communities. They do not need to be highly educated to achieve these gifts, but the most important thing of all is that they have to have the passion, charisma, and strength in what they believe in so that they can change the mind set of negative influences that surround them each and everyday, even when they get unnecessary mistreatment from these negative sources, especially within their
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She brought awareness of the everyday struggles of the black community by presenting them through plays in the theater. Instead of her plays having a positive outcome for change in the segregated city of Chicago, Graham’s choice of plays would get her into trouble, because of the political messages that were negatively brought into her plays. With Graham’s selection of plays such as The Big White Fog and Little Black Sambo, the public heavily criticized them. With the play production of The Big White Fog, it portrayed a black man dropping out of college since he was in poverty, while the play also portrayed a black woman desperately wishing to go back to the South instead of dealing with the everyday struggles of living in a segregated Chicago. The theatre production of Little Black Sambo however, was criticized more harshly for portraying African puppets with black faces and big red lips. The sad part about this situation was that majority of Graham’s criticizers were African Americans. While the production of The Big White Fog performance continued, she at one point thought that she would get support from NAACP. However, the NAACP response was that the play was ‘communist propaganda’ and should never have been performed. African American …show more content…
I would say that part of the problem was the racial tensions becoming more extreme between whites and blacks which caused the black community to suffer more. In the early twentieth century during the Great Migration period, millions of black people headed to northern cities such as New York, St. Louis, and Chicago to get away from the terrible lynching genocide of the south. Yet, the original reason why blacks were being rejected out of many union jobs was because the whites originally did not want them to be there in the first place because they were inferior. They would rather have the blacks receive extremely low income jobs that were undesirable occupations. This occurrence was notably in Chicago since the city had one of the highest populations of black people up north. This reason alone caused blacks to be in job competition in applying for a better job against the whites and other European immigrants who were not even considered white at the time. Mainly the white Anglo Saxons of Chicago mostly feared that the black Chicagoans would take over majority of the labor force especially in the job occupations that were blue collar job
She brought awareness of the everyday struggles of the black community by presenting them through plays in the theater. Instead of her plays having a positive outcome for change in the segregated city of Chicago, Graham’s choice of plays would get her into trouble, because of the political messages that were negatively brought into her plays. With Graham’s selection of plays such as The Big White Fog and Little Black Sambo, the public heavily criticized them. With the play production of The Big White Fog, it portrayed a black man dropping out of college since he was in poverty, while the play also portrayed a black woman desperately wishing to go back to the South instead of dealing with the everyday struggles of living in a segregated Chicago. The theatre production of Little Black Sambo however, was criticized more harshly for portraying African puppets with black faces and big red lips. The sad part about this situation was that majority of Graham’s criticizers were African Americans. While the production of The Big White Fog performance continued, she at one point thought that she would get support from NAACP. However, the NAACP response was that the play was ‘communist propaganda’ and should never have been performed. African American …show more content…
I would say that part of the problem was the racial tensions becoming more extreme between whites and blacks which caused the black community to suffer more. In the early twentieth century during the Great Migration period, millions of black people headed to northern cities such as New York, St. Louis, and Chicago to get away from the terrible lynching genocide of the south. Yet, the original reason why blacks were being rejected out of many union jobs was because the whites originally did not want them to be there in the first place because they were inferior. They would rather have the blacks receive extremely low income jobs that were undesirable occupations. This occurrence was notably in Chicago since the city had one of the highest populations of black people up north. This reason alone caused blacks to be in job competition in applying for a better job against the whites and other European immigrants who were not even considered white at the time. Mainly the white Anglo Saxons of Chicago mostly feared that the black Chicagoans would take over majority of the labor force especially in the job occupations that were blue collar job