American journalists

Ida. B. Wells was an investigative journalist who wrote during the post-Reconstruction era. She became one of the most politically influential female journalist during her time period. The sole reason for her writing was to advocate anti-lynching. Through all-encompassing research and statistics she successfully disclosed the truth about lynching with every gory detail intact. The Southern Horrors and Other Writings book is from a series that primarily focuses on the stereotypes that have…

more possible with the American Dream? American Dream is a dream that Americans ought to have. It was made to give the citizens a hope to live how they want, yet it has been said by some of the journalist that it was already dead. Theories were made that it was never…

Erin Ivory Wiki, Married, Husband, Bio, Birth date, Net worth, Bio and Salary Short Bio The well-known and talented American newscaster Erin Ivory has gained wide recognition for her remarkable work as a traffic reporter for WGN Morning News. Erin Ivory was born on 25th July in America. She spent most of her childhood days in Illinois area. She is of American nationality and white ethnicity. Erin Ivory received her education from Columbia College based in Chicago. She graduated with a Bachelor…

a common issue to talk about in today’s America. Americans today are against police brutality, but they don’t even know what it means. So, what is police brutality? Furthermore, The Law Dictionary states “Police Brutality is the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians.” Also, Americans often argue whether police brutality is targeting blacks or is the media just covering more on blacks then other Americans. Lastly, question and concern have been brought…

document was intended to provide people, specifically historians, the perspective of African Americans who experienced lynching because of racism and accusations. The purpose of this document is to explain how African Americans were treated and lynched in the late 19th and early 20th century. During the time that this document was created, rather than suffering from unforeseen actions, many African Americans were intentionally subjected to racial violence without any given rights. Many of which…

Washington DC. photograph commemorates the historic moment when Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous “I Have A Dream Speech” and declares that African Americans are free from racial segregation and discrimination. The second photographic was taken by Dennis Stock, titled James DEAN visiting a barber shop near Times Square. (1955). Stock was an American journalist that had developed a friendship with the actor James Dean and had taken various photographs of the actor before his untimely death.…

young African American female from Los Angeles who started the organization after the death of Trayvon Martin. She claimed, “When we say Black Lives Matter, we are talking about the ways in which Black people are deprived of our basic human rights and dignity. It is an acknowledgement Black poverty and genocide is state violence. It is an acknowledgment that 1 million Black people are locked in cages in this country” (Garza). African Americans have never has the rights that white Americans…

the film called The Help. The film was basically made in the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi when the civil right era was going on. The historical setting of the film was to give people an actual video of how the world was treating African Americans before the civil right movement. For example, in the movie, Hilly and her friends were upholding a campaign to expand the separate-but-equal status in the household of their home. Hilly decided to get a toilet installed outside of her house and…

their background; angry and uneducated. He was an author, a journalist, and a poet, but his best known works are “Black Boy” and “Native Son”. His friend, James Baldwin, was also a writer during this time as a novelist and essayist. He wrote about race, homosexuality, interracial relationships, and many other controversial or taboo subjects of his day. His most famous work was “Go Tell It On The Mountain.” which was about a young African American boy and his dealings with the Christian Church…

the internal conflict that has yet to be resolved between Japanese Americans over draft resistance, how remarkably it resembles the African American civil rights movement and how opinions stray similarly even today in both cases. Both situations are and were completely different, very complex cultural elements contributing to different agendas and strategy, yet very similar with regard to internal conflict. The African American community long struggled for small gains as United States citizens.…