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should improve themselves mentally by going to school so they can be socially respected by others. Washington then creates Tuskegee Institute which is a college for African Americans. Another Civil Rights advocate was William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois. He was the founder of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, also known as N.A.A.C.P. This was formed mainly because of the Plessy v. Ferguson case that happened in 1896. This case legalized “separate but equal.”…

When the blues was first produced, it was grown out of a tradition of sorrow songs from the slavery period; songs that spoke about the African American soul during conflicting times. Several writers have identified the blues as a multifaceted concept that can be defined through the lens of the traditional, black conservative politics; the white liberal ideology; and through the secularization of the traditional religious ideology. The blues created an era when African American could air their…

Today as in yesterday is tomorrow as in today: struggle between modernity and tradition in Pour la Suite du Monte Pour la Suite du Monte is a Canadian documentary film directed by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault in 1963. The film follows the residence in the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec about the traditional Beluga whale-hunting event as they agreed to reenact it for the one last time. One of the most outstanding themes from this film is the inheritance and innovation of the tradition…

Eric Foner’s “A Short History of Reconstruction” is an updated, abridged edition of “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution.” This book redefines how the Reconstruction Era is viewed, in ways historians have not done before. Foner chronologically starts with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to validate his statement that “Reconstruction was not only a specific time period, but also the beginning of an extended historical process: the adjustment of American society to the end of…

It’s a clear October night, temperatures are hovering around 63 degrees, you crack open the window and snuggle into the comfort and familiarity of your own bed, you are lulled to sleep by the fresh, crisp, Autumn breeze, totally unaware of the bad dream you have a date with once asleep. It’s a horrible, horrible dream yet so common you’ve personally experienced it, once, twice maybe even a dozen times, or you know people who have, or seen this kind of nightmare played out in a movie. There you…

The Struggle to for Equality With the aide of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, the end of the civil war in 1865, the addition of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution, African Americans in the South, just like their peers in the North, found themselves as newly freed people. Many dreams of striking it rich and becoming wealthy business owners were now a possibility for a once enslaved population. African Americans could do as they wanted freely with no fears…

George Simmel and W. E. B." Du Bois are two brightest mind in sociology history. Their theories and books has change the way people look at each other. In this paper is going to discuss and compare how George Simmel’s the stranger is parallel to "W. E. B." Du Bois’s double consciousness. How each theory or term are similar and different. Both theorists talks about being an outsider one way or another. Either being by society or by a way person look. W.E.B Du Bois in his books try to eyes to…

revolution. Furthermore, the Progressive Era acted as an essential factor for racial disparity in the African American population. Two of the most influential reformers for racial equality of African Americans were, Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Both chose very different methods in establishing change for African Americans. Before racial reforms were implemented, African Americans and Caucasians were entirely segregated from each other because of Jim Crow laws.…

There seems to be nothing more unnerving than carrying feelings of undesirability, isolation, struggle, and desolation. As early as the 1600’s African Americans have had to fight for their voices to be heard, for the definition of equality to be understood, and for the barrier between the oppressed and the oppressor to be shattered once and for all. Despite the plethora of adversities that African American people had to face during previous years, a motif was apparent, not giving up. In the…

1 Fences is a play written by the playwright August Wilson, who dedicated himself to writing plays capturing what it was like to be an African American in the United States during every decade of the 20th century. Fences was a play that was specifically written to provide an outlook into the lives of African Americans in America during the 1950s, during the process of demarginalization. Each character of the novel provides a unique perspective to capture different aspects of the “African…