African Grey Parrot

Native Son Richard Wright’s classical novel Native Son is a story about Bigger Thomas, a 20-year old black young African-American man, who lived in the Southside of Chicago. He lives in poor conditions Bigger Thomas physical appearance has affected his moral traits throughout the story. Because of his dark skinned color he is born with limited opportunities which causes him to become aggressive, not only angry but fears the white Americans who are overpowered of him and his people.…

The First World War, 1914 through 1918, occurred during the middle of the Jim Crow period where African-Americans were relegated to second class citizens and racial discrimination. Jim Crow separated the black population from the white population and elevated white supremacy as the rule of law. The war brought hopeful opportunity for the blacks in the hopes of achieving a measure of equality with whites and a sense of citizenship in America. The black population embraced the opportunity to do…

mark on feminism, but one of the few African American women to contribute significantly was a former slave, Sojourner Truth. During the nineteenth century, white middle-class women generally did not care about the rights of freed African American women. But there was one woman who dared enter the white middle class world of feminism and she opened the door for many African American women. Sojourner Truth played a key role in the early feminist movement among African American women. Truth was…

wrong to own, trade or sale slaves. African Americans felt as if white Christians were hypocrites and often pointed out the contradictions between God’s Word and slaveholders’ cruelty and inhumanity. William Wells Brown say, “Slaveholders hide themselves behind the Church. . . . A more praying, preaching, psalm-singing people cannot be found than the slave holders of the South.” White southerners found these beliefs extremely conflicting. Some would say African Americans embraced the…

A Look at African Americans’ Hardships Reconstruction, one of the most controversial and tempestuous eras of American history, witnessed how attempts to integrate into American society were made to and by African Americans. However, the issues central to it—the rights blacks deserved, and the possibility of economic and social justice—are still unsettled. The fictional play, The Piano Lesson, written by August Wilson was set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression. The…

their fate. They typically found jobs in households and fields and worked about 1400 hours less in a year than they did as slaves (Flexner 121, Gray 180). More educated women became teachers, administrators, principals, doctors and nurses (Gray 172). African American women’s gender and race did not limit them to jobs the nation designated for them. Prejudices did not stop Charlotte E. Ray from became a lawyer, although she face too much opposition to stay in practice (Flexner 124). Black women…

Reflection Paper Throughout my role as a student and volunteer I learned that community uplift is the most important goal of African American studies. Civic engagement in a community is necessary for the growth of the inhabitants and their well-being. Foremost, my experience in volunteering for my community encouraged me to view specific social issues differently. These social issues include, the importance of positive role models, an abundance of academic/ personal resources, and the…

Reconstruction after the Civil War was not successful. The purpose of Reconstruction was to address the serious problem of race in the South and provided protection to the freeman. Reconstruction had brought important social changes such as providing a public education system and a limited amount of political and legal power (Brinkley, 2012, p. 429). However these political and legal power where only held temporarily. New laws, such as the Mississippi Black Codes, promoted racial segregation and…

men are created equal”. This statement was part of the Gettysburg Address, and is famous to this day. Although, it has been constantly overlooked, and challenged. During the Civil Rights Movement African Americans started to voice their opinions more persistently. African…

caused him to die, or to lose faith in living this world. Then, Baldwin realizes the values of white people lead him to have irrational thoughts. For example, the last day in New Jersey, he and his friend go into a restaurant that does not serve African Americans. He continues, “I felt I had to do something with my hands. I wanted her to come close enough for me to get her neck between my hands” (Baldwin, 96). This discriminatory and unreasonable, or macro-aggression, behaviors, toward people of…