American pioneer

Perhaps one of the most important pioneers of social justice was social activist and Baptist Minister Martin Luther King, Jr. His speech presented in 1963, “I Have a Dream”, sparked a new wave of social change. This essay will summarize the King Biography, and then analyze and react to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream.” On January 15, 1929 in rural Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King was the middle child of…

Perhaps more so than other periods of prolific artistic change and growth, the era now understood in terms of the “New Negro” movement reveals a complexity of race relations, gender struggles and class divisions, particularly among African Americans than any other subsequent decade. In truth, the level of popularity of this period has fluctuated over time, and many of the writers, especially women, we now associate with the Harlem Renaissance were not recognised in mainstream literary circles…

Korean immigrants initially came to the United States for the same reasons as others, for economic reasons or to begin anew in a different country. However, after northern Korea was ceded to Japan, there was a shift in the actions and desires of the Korean immigrants that resided in the United States. These Korean immigrants changed from sojourning migrant laborers to political wanderers, fighting and promoting nationalism while also searching for other methods to assist their homeland.…

Thomas J. Sugrue is the author of the book called The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Thomas Sugrue's very much explored and sharp picture of after war Detroit offers peruses essential bits of knowledge into level-headed discussions about the contemporary urban emergency and its relationship to race and post-modern decay. Sugrue beseeches students of history and social researchers to reconsider their presumptions about the "starting points" of the urban…

African Literature has come a long way to be as unique as it is now. This has been promoted since the 1960 and even further years back. Chinua Achebe, a renowned novelist was one of the pioneers of African Literature. In this essay, I will elaborate on the life and times of this great writer. Achebe was born on 16th November, 1930 in an Ibo village called Nneobi but he was raised by his parents in Ogidi in South-Eastern Nigeria. Achebe's bright future all…

Since its existence, the American dream has turned out to be not for everyone. An individual's race and background play a vital role in economic and social class mobility. This comes from the routine cycle of oppression that has strived to remove the stripped the joys of life from people of color. The societal hatred towards certain ethnicities is so evident in America, that the wounds from America's slavery days are still fresh. This hate towards those of color has been passed down from family…

of African-Americans. He believed, “jazz is an event representing the forces of today” (p. 3). The forces of today are the industrialization and mass production of American society. He even goes on to state that American society is a “machine for living” (p. 3). Le Corbusier believed jazz reflected and contained chaotic yet continuous rhythmic flow that normal observers would view as primitive. However, Le Corbusier saw it as unequivocal and complex. He also believed African-American music and…

Bessie Coleman Bessie Coleman has influenced many African American teens from Texas by opening a flying school and teaching other black women to fly, being the first black woman to earn a pilot's license, and working to inspire black aviators. Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas; she was the tenth of thirteen children. George Coleman, her father, was three quarter Cherokee Indian. Her parents worked as sharecroppers. (Carly Courtney, Disciples of flight) When she was 12 years old,…

uncover these practices and refusal to utilize monstrous assets to bolster the Chicano development. The Raza Unida Party was set up on January 17, 1970, at a meeting of 300 Mexican Americans at Campestre Hall in Crystal City, Texas. Jose Angel Gutiérrez and Mario Compean, who had discovered Mayo (the Mexican American Youth Organization)…

Souls of a Black Folk’ writes that ‘The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line’ (Du Bois, 1903). It is from this book that the reader understands how slavery ravaged Africa and implanted its inhabitants in different parts of the American continent. The premise of the advent and the adverse effects of it to the African continent were based on the inferiority of the African person. Slavery laid the foundation for economic growth and global domination based on white…