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because police are here to protect and help people, therefore most people wouldn’t question them: “ I doubt you would so quickly commend the policeman if you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negros here in the city jail; if you were here to watch them curse and push old Negro women…

this expert from the article she outlines how the vote of the Negro woman is different than that of the Negro man. She tells her readers that the Negro male “does not know the value of the ballot” (Burroughs , 1915) and the there is strength in the Negro when she goes to vote. She outlines this strength by explains all that she does form he duties for the church to the how she runs the family at home and how this will allow the Negro woman “ransom” her race but gaining better control of the…

Moynihan stated “that the gap between the Negro and most other groups in American society is widening” (Moynihan, 1965). Reason for that widening gap is family structure. Moynihan believed that “the Negro families in the urban ghettos are crumbling, due to poverty” (Moynihan, 1965). He referred to the issues as a “tangle of pathologies”. Two important issues Moynihan used…

simple, perhaps everyday, object. When reading a novel, many may analyze the more larger and obvious symbols. However, small and inconspicuous symbols shed a brighter light on literary works. In Native Son by Richard Wright, Wright tells the story of a negro boy, Bigger, who struggles to live while neglecting the fact that he does not maintain the inalienable rights that his equals (as he believes) have. His conflict in not being able to overlook this matter leads him to oversee the larger…

W.E.B. DuBois published The Quest of the Silver Fleece, the African American community stood at a critical time in the course of black history. For the first time in America, they were “free.” Looming all around was the Negro question. The whites asked “what to do with the Negro,” while the blacks asked “what shall I become?” These questions are mentioned explicitly and implicitly through DuBois’ novel. Emphasis has always been put on “great whites” attempt to answer that question. Characters…

turn of the twelfth century, William Edward Burghadt and Booker T. Washington wanted to help the Black community progress. To do this they both formulated ideas and approaches to effectively quicken the social equality of the blacks. Although these Negro leaders developed approaches to help the same cause, they strongly opposed one another. And although these two men both had sensible ideas to help reach social equality, I believe Booker T. Washington’s position and approach represented the best…

quality, the caste system isolating the community but upper-class Negroes from whites, black men and women occupations, the class system and operating in the Negro caste, and finally the Negro political activities from 1870 leading into the early…

equality stood Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was an American poet and social activist whose poetic themes targeted African American Culture, furthermore bringing about his conurbations to the Harlem Renaissance. Two of his poems titled, “Harlem” and “Negro” Hughes uses several elements of poetry to portray the theme, such as similes, diction, imagery and tone. His theme goes to show when you give up on your dream, consequences may arise. Langston wants people to be knowledgeable about what…

Robert Coles, “Children of Crisis,” Coles writes a descriptive recollection of a participant in the desegregation of Atlanta schools, while doing so Coles provides substantial amounts of evidence that illustrates the difficulty of the desegregation for Negro families. This essay was written to inform the reader of the difficulties and perseverance of the participants in the throes of the decline of segregation in southern schools while keeping the tone considerably light and positive. He begins…

of the image, is a picture of a group of Black people being restrained to enter a room labeled “Polls” by some White men complaining as indicate the captions. The last item at the bottom of the image is a text that is titled “The Radical Platform- Negro Suffrage The Only Issue” which sums up the overall idea expressed in the…