African American history

prolific writer and produced plays, novels, autobiographies, newspaper columns, African American histories, short stories, books for juveniles, and anthologies, as well as poems (Scott 1). His poetic creations embody some of the most characteristic aspects of African American poetry…

1939. Many people would not assume Gone with the Wind has a film that has portrayed African Americans in a poor light, but it has. On the other hand, Birth of a Nation was truly a film that stereotyped African Americans. Birth of a Nation when released caused riots in many cities and was…

The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened its doors on September 24, 2016, for its visitors to exclusively acknowledge the documentations of African American lives, past and present. Although the museum itself does not provide an extensive collection of stories of bygone eras, the contemporary stories that the museum provides have a lot to tell in regards to the African American history, culture, and community. However, the stories themselves are not the only…

a result, many suburban areas were developed across the state (Textbook, 489). However, not all people who came to California, or who were already living in the state, experienced the same opportunities as others. During the post-war years, African-Americans experienced hostile attitudes from white Californians. In George J. Sánchez’s What’s Good for Boyle Heights is Good for the Jews, he states, “As agricultural land was turned into single-family tract housing, racially restrictive convents…

In many universities today, you will find an African Studies Department. However, this has not always been the case. African Americans have fought to have equal rights when it came to education. In the early 1930’s, Carter G. Woodson challenged the idea of “Mis-Education” of the black race. Supported by prominent leaders at the time such as W. E. B. Dubois, Woodson argues on the “education system’s failure to present present authentic Negro History in schools and the bitter knowledge that there…

all things African American. She attended Howard University, a historically black school, for a graduate degree and went on to lecture at Eastern University in the Africana Studies program on the history of black woman and hair. Following up her education, she became the leader of the NAACP for several years in in her local chapter which is Spokane, WA. Beginning in 2006 or 2007, Miss Dolezal has disguised herself as a black woman by doing her hair and makeup to appear African-American;…

Harlem Renaissance, which was the period of cultural eruption. This event took place in New York City during the 1920s, giving rise to popular jazz, African-American art, literature, and poetry. As an African-American, Hughes refused to obtain the racism that was introduced in the United States, and emphasized by his active participation in his African American community to which he belonged and loved passionately. The speaker envisioned a future in which he is no longer told what to do and is…

Throughout United States history, slavery, discriminatory laws, and overt institutional racism have forced African Americans to seek alternatives that would empower them to fulfill their highest potential. As a result, the Black Nationalist ideology emerged as a response to the economic exploitation and political abandonment endured by the people of African descent throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though Black Nationalism developed in the United States it is not a unique…

Mary McLeod Bethune -Mary McLeod Bethune was an African American Educator, Civil Rights activist, and was a special advisor for Franklin D. Roosevelt. -Her major contribution to history was founding the National Council of Negro Women. -She impacted today’s societal views on women’s rights to education but her work was not limited to just women and includes all African Americans. Marion Anderson -Marion Anderson, was the first African American singer to sing in the New York City Metropolitan…

Without blatantly stating it, society has found a way to ensure the legal separation of the African Americans from the whites. White people (mostly, of course) aren’t going to deliberately say, “We want to live in a segregated lifestyle; the whites to one side and the African Americans to the other.” They are, however, going to do anything in their power to make this happen without actually coming out and saying it because that would be rude and politically incorrect. David Roediger states that…