American pioneer

particular ethnic groups. This is the case of Jazz and African-Americans as well as Tejano and Mexica- Americans. In the article Tejanos and the Making of the Texas Jazz Festival, 1959-2013, Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. describes how minority ethnic groups influence one each other and how such influence is seen through music, especially jazz and Tejano music. During the historical study, San Miguel Jr. attempts to analyze the tendency Mexican Americans have had about adapting different music genres…

diverse collections of American history that influenced the civil right movement. What caught my eye initially was the N.A.A.C.P. Flag “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” memorabilia. It very important to see that even though the NAACP did not have a significant presence in the southern states, that the organization alerted the nation of the heinous crime of lynching. To walk to down the street and see that flag waving is vital because lynching was the dehumanization of African Americans. Lynching not…

whites proclaimed themselves as the “Superior” race. On December 24, 1865, a group of six veterans of the confederate army founded The Ku Klux Klan. A secret society based on the ideals of white supremacy. They played a violent role against African Americans, Christians, Jews, and white Republicans in the south during the Reconstruction era. In several southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan. In 1871, congress passed The Ku Klux Klan Act. These laws made it a…

their homesteads. The insubordination took its name from its typical pioneer, Daniel Shays of Massachusetts, a previous skipper in the Continental armed force. Spanish and U.S. moderators finished up the Treaty of San Lorenzo, otherwise called Pinckney's Treaty, on October 27, 1795. The bargain was an imperative discretionary accomplishment for the United States. It determined regional debate between the two nations and allowed American ships the privilege to free route of the Mississippi River…

In the Documentary, Ethos was vital part in developing the story. They had first hand accounts from Hip-Hop artist and well-known producers and actors who had a major influence on black entertainment. Melvin Van Peebles was a multi-talented and productive producer who paved the way for aspiring African American’s who were looking to dab in the entertainment industry. He was known as "the godfather of modern black cinema" due to his 1970 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which at the time…

and as a teenager had aspirations to become an "authoress or poetess". In 1914, Ruth went to Foster's School of Musical Art to study musical art by learning the piano. After she attended the Foster’s School of Musical Art, she began attending the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago to further her education by focusing on the piano, but that is not what happened. Instead of staying for only a year like she had planned she ended up staying for about eight years. This allowed her to become a…

Lincoln Memorial ignoring the Washington Monument. The impetus for this way was the point at which an African-American lady, declined to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery transport. The walk was sorted out by King and different gatherings of social liberties, work and religious associations keeping in mind the end goal to increase common and monetary correspondence for African-Americans. This occasion was the place King made his memorable "I Have a Dream" discourse which was obvious…

basketball league for only African-Americans. A man named Claude Johnson decided to dedicate an exhibit to the Black Fives. “There are ‘dozens and dozens’ of all-black teams that played basketball before 1950 — and that their legacy reflects the changing face of America at the time. They are in parallel with the evolution of black culture, black society — and they are a mirror of the way America evolved, the way the game evolved,” Johnson says. “You know, the pioneers of the game, for all of us,…

surrender her seat on the isolated city transport to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. This drove the isolation of open transportation to go under assault. The law required that when the white area of the transport turn out to be full, African-Americans to sit in the back of city transports and to surrender their seats to whites. Rosa Parks was a very much regarded and noble figure in the group, her capture was at long sufficiently…

Americo Paredes biography by Manuel F. Medrano, the author tries to convey the importance that America Paredes played as one of the leading pioneers of Chicano studies. He portrays this by showing various examples of his accomplishments and showing his background in his early years in the valley. The author also tries to portray the importance of Mexican American history by focusing on the aspect that we are not informed of our own history. Manuel Maderno biography of Americo Paredes is a clear…