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officials and black personnel on base. He spoke out against segregation saying, "A segregated unit is always slightly phony" (Sandler 29). Parrish was told that he “need not worry about conditions and enforcing standards at Tuskegee. His job was to ‘Just keep 'em happy’" (Sandler 28). Parish saw the potential and the determination in the cadets who knew their personal effort and success or failure would be used to judge all African Americans. Captain Davis often reminded the other pilots…

Tupac Shakur was born in 1971 in New York to two Black Panther activists; you could say social justice ran in his blood. Tupac grew up surrounded by poverty, drugs, and crime but wanted to make a better life for himself, so he did. He became a rapper and in his songs and lyrics he would talk about social issues, for example “Brenda’s Got a Baby” is a song about teen pregnancy and the inability to raise a child, and “Dear Mama”, a song where Tupac discusses poverty and drug addiction in his…

Jefferson Davis flees Richmond? Davis leaves his office as word reached him that Robert E Lee retreated in Richmond after Union Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Sherman tore and set fire to Richmond as they tore up the land. Davis knowing Richmond had no chance, he fled the city. On April 3rd, 1865, war erupted in Richmond. The Union, led by Ulysses Grant and his troops, later joined by Sherman,stomped through the city. They tore apart farms and plantations,they viciously forced citizens…

the African American decent, black people, or slaves, were to be viewed as property not at other human beings. Shortly after sparked all of the controversies that were set because of slavery. When…

called Minnesota North Stars. Three months later, he was still wearing a back brace as the doctor had instructed to do so. His team, The Black Hawk players wanted him to play just as badly as he wanted to play. The doctor told him that he should move on and find another job because there was no chance that he could go back and play hockey again. Sadly, The Black Hawks just quietly faded away from him without a goodbye or good luck. He later entered a course to become a travel agent in a class…

As America entered her antebellum period, there was a shifting of culture while the constitution remained the foundation of the nation, people began to question the injustices of certain people groups, Indians, Blacks and women. What is more, many writers touted the greatness of America, while others doubted whether the institutions of the nation were worth following. Among these writers was Ralf Waldo Emerson and Sojourner Truth. Although it is unknown if their lives intersected, there is a…

his past and how to identify himself as a person in the time period when segregation was in the role. Everyone did not understand why a black African American man was writing in such a manner where he can get in a lot of hatred coming through and also can be in a lot of trouble with the authority. He uses imagery to express love in his poem between Black men and Black women, nature, romantic quandary, mother-daughter and father-son relations, friendship, and silences. “The romanticization of…

vehicle to discuss societal issues and controversial topics. Furthermore, musical theatre has evolved a long way from some of its earliest beginnings, Minstrel shows: a form in which burnt cork was applied to the face in mock of African Americans. This “black face” was an attempt to conform…

In July of 1986, the year after Dalene Matthee’s Fiela’s Child was published, Francis Levy, a writer, humorist, and critic for the New York Times wrote an article providing a brief background of the novel as well as offering a few of his interpretations the novel. For example, Levy’s thesis argument in the article is to determine how this novel as a work of fiction allegorizes South Africa’s history in relation to the story of Fiela and Benjamin. Essentially, Levy claims that the novel is…

Question 1: I felt like he describes himself as a well-educated, respectable young man that was disturbed by the stereotyping other people apply to him, such as being a criminal. The people around him, especially young woman, were terrified by him when he went for evening walks, the jeweler brought out a Doberman Pincher when he entered the jewelry store and an officer mistook him for a criminal and tried to arrest him. I liked how he started walking in highly populated areas and whistling so…