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Exploring African-American Culture: The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance started in 1920, in Harlem, New York. The Harlem Renaissance created a big uproar of the African American Culture when they emigrated from the south to north. It expressed the African American culture and brought it alive. The Harlem Renaissance unified other races, making African American culture, a trend. The Harlem Renaissance contributed to the growth of the emerging African American culture in the post slavery…

American writer and activist W.E.B. DuBois intersected his definition of “color line” with decolonization as seen in this volume. The concept of the color-line refers essentially to the role that society generally plays in race and racism in history. Du Bois examines and incorporates questions of race and…

The progressive era in America was a time for moving forward and updating time worn ways. Starting in 1890, the progressive era spanned 30 years and ended in 1920. The progressive era was supported mostly by middle and upper class citizens because the reforms were not reared toward citizens whose main priority was trying to support their family, such as immigrants or the urban poor. The reformers were more aimed to fixing the issues in the government. Issues such as corruption and bribery were…

The late 19th and early 20th centuries was a critical time blacks in America. Segregation was going on and there was no equality for blacks. Two important men who stepped up to the plate to get equality was Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois. Both of these gentleman had the same goal which was to uplift the negro race. However both of these men had different strategies. Booker T. Washington created the accommodationist strategy. The accommodationist strategy told blacks to gradually gain…

Repress, often viewed as the ability to restrain, prevent, or inhibit. Booker T. Washington had the ability to repress and he definitely used it to his full potential. Washington was born on April 5th, 1856 in Virginia and unfortunately died at the young age of 59 on November 14, 1915. As an African-American educator, author, and orator Washington faced great amounts of scrutiny for his race. Washington graduated college from Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute where he attended while working…

Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a foundation and blueprint for Hughes later works of poetry that involve political meanings of equality not only in the physical sense but also in terms of intelligence. This foundation will grow with Hughes later works as his final pieces of poetry capitalize on how Hughes writings schematically are a collaboration of all the art forms presented in the Harlem Renaissance movement, an allusion to the lengthier lines of Walt Whitman and the…

Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” is a bold poem written during an eventful time for civil rights history, the Harlem Renaissance. During the Harlem Renaissance the African American community endured extreme racism and degradation. McKay wrote this poem with the intent to display his feelings as an immigrant who moved to America for a better life but instead was thrown into a situation where he was treated like an animal instead of a person. He chose to write this poem in the form of a…

Within my 20 years of living, I have never experienced as much racial tension as my generation is encountering in present day. Such uninterrupted racial tension has begun to awaken my race’s youth to the very stable and living institution of systematic oppression that continues to suffocate the progress, success, and equality of African American life. Similar to the times of Washington and DuBois and the Civil Rights movement, African Americans are once again faced with the question of “How to…

John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin was a highly admired American historian and social activist, he is best known for his scholarship that focused on Southern history and racial politics. His groundbreaking work, From Slavery to Freedom, was first released in 1947 and sold more than three million copies worldwide and with many other titles to follow (Yarrow). Apart from being an historian and author, Franklin was also former president for many honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa,…

There have been numerous poets that have graced the Earth with their talents, providing humans with some of the simplest words; however, those simple words could have a deeper meaning than that of the ocean. One of these poets, Langston B. Hughes, was born in Joplin, Missouri. As an African-American, he faced many hardships in furthering his learning. While studying in New York during the Harlem Renaissance, he was inspired to write poetry. He had many works of poetry, “Theme for English B”…