American philanthropists

The early 1900’s were a pivotal time in American and black history. The Great Migration in response to booming industrial era, would see black’s contributing more economically, and in war time battles. In knowing that such trappings would not last forever, black leadership would be more important than ever to ensure that black Americans would not fall by the wayside once again in the aftermath. Two leaders, the already known Booker T. Washington, and the new literary intellectualist W.E.B. Du…

“After four decades, even in this fractured media culture that we’ve got, ‘SNL’ remains appointment-viewing.” Following the president’s remarks, citations were read for each individual honouree, with Gehry described as an “exemplar scholar of American innovation,” and Michaels hailed as “one of the most transformative entertainment figures of our…

1. The court case Murray v. Maryland (1936) used precedent from the US Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson that ruled segregation was constitutional as long as it was separate but equal. Why could using this dogma be problematic in the journey for civil rights? Murray v. Maryland (1936) was won the lower levels of the court system which was quite a victory, at the time getting a judge residing in the south, to see the injustices of segregation was not an easy task. Attorneys working these…

you’re educated about many things you gain success because you learn more about the world and people around you. In the mid 1800s most colleges and school’s barely accepted African-American students. Consequently, after the Civil War African-American education began to blossom so, black ministers and white philanthropist began to establish schools. There were over 100 of them that were opened, that we now call HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges or Universities). Therefore, their hunger for…

ensembles with a primary interest in the band. Founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is known as the first institution of higher learning for African Americans. The founding of Cheyney University was made possible by Richard Humphreys, a Quaker philanthropist who bequeathed $10,000, one tenth of his estate, to design and establish a school to educate the descendants of the African race. Cheyney University currently has over 1,488 students…

Reconstruction period, a majority of American local government and states used Jim Crow laws to segregate the whites and the blacks. These segregation laws were ways to keep the African American population marginalized and an attempt for white supremacy to endure. “Jim Crow was not just a system of laws, excluding black people from public accommodations; it was a code of conduct that relegated African Americans to second class citizens.” (Gates) Although some African Americans were able to…

been trying to do that to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember."("Fannie Lou Hamer." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2015. Web. 19 Feb. 2015).This famous quote was said by Fannie Lou Hamer who was a civil rights activist and philanthropist .Hamer was threatened, arrested, beaten, and shot at because of her job but continued to fight the segregation struggle even if she died. According to Encyclopedia .com Henry Kirksey Mississippi’s first black senator told Hamer’s…

Another example of white apathy to oppression of blacks is found in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son. While Mr. Dalton, a white real estate owner and philanthropist, is purely fictional, he acts as a microcosm for upper-class white individuals and their treatment of lower-class blacks in Chicago. Mr. Dalton, when confronted with his own egregious profiting off of housing for minorities, takes solace in having…

Alice Walker is a much acclaimed, contemporary, Afro- American novelist, poetess, activist and philanthropist writing for her declared cause of uplifting Afro- American women and projecting them as goddesses in her fictions. Her fictitious world is typical as the world painted by her predecessors and contemporary Afro -Americans both men and women writers. Her fictitious world, though much dominated by female characters, Walker casts much insight into the male characters making them grow…

attitudes. The American population has made many achievements in the areas of civil rights through their consistent championing for fair and equal treatment. Gradually, the Americans become a unanimous voice that condemns acts of civil disobedience regardless of the person responsible for the wrongdoing. For many years, Americans have been told that they should learn to respect their different cultures, beliefs,…