African American history

“I teach kings the history of their ancestors, so that the lives of the ancients might serve them as an example, for the world is old, but the future springs from the past.” -Griot Djeli Mamadou Koyaté [1] This quote, which was taken from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali is a remark made by the griot who told the story to the book’s author D.T. Niane. He prefaced the story by stating his purpose as a griot, and the purpose for all griots, which is to be “vessels of speech, […] repositories…

A lot of African Americans could not play basketball because the Americans would not let them do a lot of stuff so the African Americans tried a lot to do the stuff they wanted. Dr. James Naismith invented basketball at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891. The game was first played with peach baskets and a soccer ball and was invented to provide indoor exercise for football players. In 1892 Students and Workers at the School Christian Workers play the…

book takes place during a time where slavery, racial discrimination was common. The book starts with an African American man named Wilson Vashon Eagleson, since he was little he dreamed of riding an aircraft. But this would be impossible and as he grew older he would understand that his color skin took a huge role in this. The AAC was an elite squad of a white men air pilot who made a mark in history. One of the propaganda that made the air pilot famous was a boy’s comic book. General Henry…

of the many African American leaders of the 20th century, that some people have forgotten. This man was a real hero that would inspire many other African Americans to work towards to earn their rights.Marcus Garvey's life was influenced by his early life. Their major accomplishments to American society, including creating the largest black organization in America, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) (nationalhumanitiescenter.org), which helped him earn his place in history as an…

others in society as well. Through action, society is able to progress and mend to the people’s ever changing beliefs and values. No one in history is remembered for what they did not do, but rather what they did do and how it affected society. For example, Harriet Tubman and the NAACP went down in history for their work in improving the lives of African-Americans and fighting to change the standards of society during their time, showing that acts of kindness can have a positive effect on…

during the slavery era. Hip-hop, originally created by African Americans has been around for many years. Not only do African Americans contribute to making Hip Hop music but other races as well. Hip Hop voices the issues that are currently happening to the African American community, such as death, racism, and police brutality. From Beyoncé singing about Black stereotypes to Macklemore, a white male, using his lyrics to stand with African Americans and crediting them. Hip Hop/Pop music has…

The plight of the African American has been exceptionally brutal and generationally consequential in the United States. Africans Americans were brought over to this country by force as slaves and remained enslaved for centuries and after they achieved freedom in 1865 they continually struggled through the Reconstruction period and even beyond the Civil Right period with a system of written and unwritten laws in America that kept them oppressed and made it nearly impossible to control their…

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois were both influential African American leaders in the early 1900’s. Both men were highly educated and dedicated their lives to changing the status of African Americans in a post Civil War America. Although both Washington and DuBois had the same dreams of equality for African Americans, they had very different ideas on how best to achieve this equality. Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans could achieve equality by first accepting that…

ancestors. The ancestors who fought for the African-Americans so we can have privileges and feel accepted as equal. Although, slavery happened many decades ago, color discrimination still lives on until this day. Many people don 't acknowledge how much the world evolved since the 1800s. Throughout that time, white people didn 't care for colored people. The Caucasian- Americans thought they were superior, wiser and more important than African-Americans.…

Louis on the Illinois side. The government, law enforcement, and jury should not be feared anymore, but the truth is that Ferguson still suffers from prejudice. Eighty-six percent of vehicle stops made by the police are African American. The article I read “The Furry of Ferguson” It really explains how smaller cities like Ferguson and others throughout the United States are suffering from poverty. The poverty leads to simple tickets not being paid, then leading to arrests on…