March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

years following 2014 Cole would go onto ”release his 4th Billboard 200-topping album 4 You're Eyez Only”. Many critics like to call this album J. Cole's darkest and deepest album in his discography. One specific song from the album that does a great job at highlighting this is “Change” which strikes the listener by addressing the shooting of a 22-year-old man named James, and highlights the black violence and crime within their communities and asks for a call of action to change for the better.…

At the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Reconstruction, America’s first terrorist organization was formed in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee. This group became known as the Ku Klux Klan. The Greek word for circle is “kyklos”, and the term “clan” was added for alliteration purposes. Six former Confederate veterans came together to create this group as a way to politically remove the Republican party and have white Democratic supremacy in power. The second agenda of the Ku Klux Klan was to…

Paper Assignment for the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass American Historical Survey Online: Fall 2014 Emma White Northwest Missouri State University On August 3, 1857 Frederick Douglass delivered a “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York. While being an eminent human rights leader in the abolitionist movement of the United States, Frederick Douglass made this powerful statement, “Without struggle there can be no progress.” Throughout his autobiography, the…

The family was already stressed enough, what with the previous day’s 1⁄2 cm of rain draining the hills and streaming across the floor, its volume increased by the early spring melt. The poorly constructed shack had no floors but dirt that had now become mud, veined with rivulets. With no insulation and chinks in the walls, keeping a near term mother warm and dry was a full time task. The available help was a 14 year old girl and a boy just turned 11. Then there was the earthquake. Small by world…

great leader as a child (Presidential 1). Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb known for its close family ties (Alchin 1), Kennedy showed promise in school when he applied himself. Even though he and his family often moved because of his father’s job, he never let himself fall behind in his academics, and understood the importance of being able to adjust to the differing curriculums. This drive would later help him while in college, where he attended Harvard University and graduated in…

According to Merriam-Webster and Wikipedia information found on William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868. As a descendant of African- American, French, and Dutch ancestors, he proved his intellectual gifts at an early age. Du Bois was printed in the community’s newspaper by the age of 14. As the only black kid in his class of 12 students, he graduated from high school as valedictorian at the age of 16. Shortly after his graduation, Du Bois…

mother, Leona Edwards was a schoolteacher. Parks’s mother taught her to stand up for what she believed in and to defend her rights. I thought it was interesting how childhood events influenced her to defend her seat on the bus. Parks saw Booker T. Washington as a role model and wanted to help African-Americans excel in America. She was also inspired by her grandfather, who would defy the Jim Crow laws. He would introduce himself with his last name, instead of his first name like the Jim Crow…

Political Parties have huge impacts of things that go on in today’s society. Many political parties are well out spoken and are mostly heard than seen. What is a political party you may ask? A political party is an organized group of people with very similar thoughts and opinions politically. They seek the influence of those who have political power to get their candidates put into the public office. Politicians may talk about anything from taxes to education. Whichever catches the attention of…

capitalism framework is unrealistic because corporations, religions, institutions of higher learning are, ostensibly independent, but in reality are controlled by capitalists whom have the money to donate to win elections, pay salaries and provide jobs. This allow for the mass exploitation of those who are not part of their class. These systems address issues only within the ruling bourgeoisie class and completely ignores the interests of the proletariat. Because the proletariats have no…

Introduction “Selma,” I think while meaning well, is another piece of counter revolutionary, ruling class propaganda. It is like a “how not to manual” in how not to make revolution, then and now. I was an activist in the days in question in this movie and all the thousands of revolutionary voices that were raised, back in the day, are more thoroughly crushed in this film than all the might of U.S. imperialist military, police, intelligence and public opinion creating machines…