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The Bottom of Hardships The book that W.E.B. Du Bois wrote has a very descriptive set of stories that explains some situations of African American history. In the front of this, book he had multiple quotes that he felt were important. The one that stood out the most to me was, “To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships” (Du Bois 12). This quote has great depth of meaning to it. It describes what families were going through once they…

The plight of the African American has been exceptionally brutal and generationally consequential in the United States. Africans Americans were brought over to this country by force as slaves and remained enslaved for centuries and after they achieved freedom in 1865 they continually struggled through the Reconstruction period and even beyond the Civil Right period with a system of written and unwritten laws in America that kept them oppressed and made it nearly impossible to control their…

Booker T Washington and W.E.B DuBois had contrasting views on how to attain racial equality, though the views of Du Bois sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Booker T Washington considered that social equality would come naturally when African Americas were economically powerful. W.E.B DuBois thought that political and social equality was necessary, so he created movements such as the Niagara movement to push for equality. Washington and DuBois were both African American leaders who wanted racial…

After the post –Civil War Reconstruction period ended in 1876 and for much of the nineteenth century the black community was in constant migration. White supremacy was precedent across the South, intimidation, violence and lynching of black southerners were not uncommon practices. Segregationist policies known as Jim Crow became the law of the land. Southern blacks were forced to make their living working the land as part of the sharecropping system, which inevitably offered very little in the…

teachers gradually increased among the schools, easily outnumbering the Whites. The infamous social leader, W.E.B. Du Bois, made a stance upon the educational rights of African Americans as he claimed that “the school system in the country districts of the South is a disgrace and in few towns and cities are the Negro schools what they ought to be.” In order to resolve this issue, Du Bois called for the impartial education of Blacks: “we will fight for all time against any proposal to educate…

Learning to Read Malcom X 1) Generally speaking, people start off learning to read at a young age. They primarily attend school, where they are taught with images and words in which they learn to formulate small sentences at a time. They are given “beginners” vocabulary which begins to advance with one’s cognitive understanding, age, and grade. Malcom X learning to read was very different from the norm. He was self-taught while residing in prison with no prior knowledge of vocabulary. “But…

In the 1920s and mid 1930s the Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, artistic, and social movement that gave a new light to black cultural identity. At the heart of Harlem Renaissance were black authors/writers, scholars, and musicians. Many of the people involved in the Harlem Renaissance were artistic and literary leaders that later influenced African American culture. This coming together of people created a sense of racial pride for people in the African- American community. Many African…

During the period of 1917-1935 existed an artistic, social and cultural phenomenon swept throughout the entire United States. A explosion of creativity resulting from African American influence brought new styles and freedom in the arts. Historians dubbed the period as the Harlem Renaissance, seeing the upheaval of African American culture and civil rights and the introduction of new artistic styles such as Jazz and Negro Literature. Therefore, which poet represents the ideology of the Harlem…

Reconstruction was a period in the United States history immediately following the civil war in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious southern states back into the union. Also during that time 4 million African American men and women were released from slavery with nothing and with no one to turn to. They were released into a society that looked down upon them; a society where they were once considered property. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois had…

activist, W.E.B. Du Bois, once said," To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships." W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were both working towards the same goal, but the way they went about fulfilling that goal was very different. W.E.B. Du Bois believed in standing up to his oppressors. Booker T. Washington believed in stopping racial equality by showing whites that blacks can be successful and create their own businesses. W.E.B. Du…