American journalists

The art market has favored African American artists such as Charles and Colescott whose work “promotes” racial stereotypes even though the artists’ purpose is ironic. In each of their paintings, notions of beauty, ugliness, longing, and violence appear, reminding the African American community that they cannot detach themselves from the past as it shaped them to what they’ve become, and ultimately how they…

Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to WWII was written by well known journalist and writer Douglas A. Blackmon. Blackmon was born on January 16, 1964 in Stuttgart , Arkansas but was eventually raised in the small town of Leland, Mississippi where he developed his love for writing. In 1986 Blackmon would later go on to graduate from Hendrix College. Throughout his career Blackmon has accumulated various accolades such as the American Book Award and Pulitzer…

Madame C.J. Walker, named Sarah Breedlove at birth, was the first African American millionaire. Walker made it into the National Women's Hall of fame in 1993 and was a member of the National Association of Colored Women. Walker became a millionaire through her own work. Her company was called “The Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company.” I chose Walker because she inspired many people to start their own business. Walker was born in 1876 as Sarah Breedlove; her parents were former slaves,…

that is marked in infamy in American history was the forceful eviction of native Americans from their land for white settlement. Many tribes were lost due to the expansion of the country that is now called the United States. Many people think that as unfortunate and tragic the loss of a life and culture of the Native Americans was, tragedies like this do not occur in the modern world. However Native Americans were not the only ethnic group marginalized. African Americans were brutalized for…

"GEORGE WASHINGTON 's SECRET SIX The Spy Ring That Saved The American Revolution." Kirkus Reviews 81.19 (2013): 173. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Oct. 2015 The main idea of this site was to explain who exactly George Washington was and how he was related to the American Revolution. George Washington was part of the Secret Six; the Spy Ring that saved the American Revolution. This article showed many authors asserted that the Americans would not have won the Revolutionary War without…

Does an HBCU offer an African American student more than a PWI? An HBCU, “is a Historically Black College or University, that was founded by our ancestors to educate us on our history as African-American descents.” Before HBCUs were a thing, African Americans were free slaves that were not allowed to get an education. This did not stop them from learning a way to read, write, and calculate math. The Philadelphia Quakers founded the Institute of Colored Youth, so the children will have the…

In the article, Afro-American Biography: The Case of George Washington Williams by John Hope Franklin, and the letter George Washington Williams's Open Letter to King Leopold on the Congo, 1890, both of the article and letter was a turning point for blacks throughout the world. The article revealed discrimination within the United States and how George Washington overcame this. The letter that he wrote to King Leopold, woke a society that didn’t want to wake up. A society that considered black…

At the time, “AKEL was a crypto-communist party, and it had a considerable following among left- leaning figures such as Vassos Lyssarides and George Ladas, as well as many of the noncommunist Greek Cypriots who were working as journalists” (Rahe, 6). Since there were Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot soccer teams already in existence, AKEL was intent on achieving enosis—a political union—between Cyprus and what they thought was a communist Greece. In addition, while pursuing cultural…

create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People but soon withdrawn from it because it was not taking a lot of action. By getting more women involved she fought for women's suffrage and against job discrimination of African Americans. On March 25, 1931 at the age of 68 Ida B. Wells died of kidney disease in Chicago, Illinois. Even though her life was cut shorter than most people's she still impacted the country more than most people could. She was able to reduce lynchings…

Students will recognize how the Jim Crow Laws began to affect the everyday lives of African Americans and how they sparked racial violence throughout the United States. Introduction In the last lesson, you learned of the origins of the Jim Crow Laws. In this Read It, you are going to learn just how far some people were willing to go in order to carry out their beliefs on the Jim Crow Laws. As Reconstruction began to end, many states were left with the ability to begin rewriting their own…