American pioneer

which was complexed of crooked white supremacist; the proclamation was mean to remove more than three million African-American enslaved people in order for them to become apart of society as a equal human being. More importantly those enslaved in designated southern areas. The proclamation was meant to change those enslaved blacks from being a “slave” to being a “free” American. During the mid-20th century racism…

During the 60’s African Americans were faced with hardships unlike no other, having to deal with racism, educational disparities, and segregation during the Jim Crowe era of the deep south. Fixing to fight the status quo of the segregationist American south, African American students from historically Black Institutions had demonstrated that education should “serve as a tool to enlighten a people relative to their civil rights and social justice.” With African Americans leaders of the time…

Shirley Chisolm was the first African-American woman elected to Congress – representing Bedford-Stuyvesant from 1968 to 1983. In 1972, she was nominated for President at the Democratic convention – becoming the first African-American candidate for the nation’s highest office. Born in Brooklyn, Shirley Chisolm was sent to Barbados to live with her maternal grandmother until the age of ten. Because of her early years in the Caribbean, she spoke with a strong West Indian accent. Returning to…

Accomplishments, & Awards. In 1979, the NAACP awarded Rosa Parks the Spingarn Medal, their highest honor. In 1980, the NAACP awarded Rosa Parks the Martin Luther King Jr. Award. On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days. James F. Blake, the…

diametrically opposite, the disapproval and hostility to the way they lived their lived were parallel. Arthur (Jack) Johnson and Paul Leroy Robson were pioneers in sports, brave in combating the racism of their times, and unrelenting in their quest to exert their manhood. Both men were forerunners of greatness, paving the way for the African-Americans who followed them, who are recipients of the opportunities that these two great men created. I will attempt to give evidence of how these men…

address this question by defining Ghettocracy and Afristocracy, discussing how blackness is defined in the United States and whether these two social classes within the African American race nullifies blackness in America. Cosby’s attack on poor black Americans at a public event aired the dirty laundry within the African American race by clearly dividing blacks into class categories and plotting one against the other. According to Dyson (2005), his comments are not isolated, but are held by…

Social identity and race has always been related in the United States. One’s social identity is connected to his or her race here in the United States. In other words, people who are black are usually associated with what other black people do, though they do not know anything about that. One may ask, what is race and what is social identity? Race is a group of people who have distinctive physical characteristic such as skin color while social identity is how we or people recognizes us in…

Ms. Ramzy African American Women in Society Who is the African American woman and how does society depict her existence? The media has and are constantly offering that African American women are either all mad, “babymamas,” or are sitting home only to collecting government assistance on the behalf of her children as her career. To better understand the diaspora of the culture of African American women in today’s society, it is lucrative to examine the past, the present, and the future of the…

productivity/industry still found today? Do you think American workers are ‘Franklinian’? Has the modern world and multitasking ruined the Franklin model? Franklin, while not the pioneer of the idea of an American work ethic, did much to change it from its Puritan roots of predestination. He secularized the American work ethic, and established a series of rules and adages as to how to be wealthy. Many of the adages Franklin once established are still around today in American society, albeit less…

referred to as the “theory of knowledge.” The Pioneer Phase had “a theological intensity about it: ‘A great epoch has begun, / There exists a new…