Sharecropping

To be an American in the 20th Century meant that you were in pursuit of the American Dream, or, “the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative”. The finish line shown in our mural represents the American Dream, with each character seeing a different goal for themselves at the end of it. The four different lanes represent the different paths the characters had to take to achieve their dream. This…

There is no denying that black people in America have been mistreated in the past; almost every American can agree on this, regardless of their race. However, the argument of whether the effects of this mistreatment exist today is a more complex and controversial one. Even more controversial is the argument of whether black people should recieve reparations. In his article “The Case for Reparations”, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues for the need for reparations for black Americans due to a number of…

Many people believe that the restoration of the Union was the cause of the Civil War, but the issue of slavery was what actually led the Union and Confederacy into War. Territorial expansion as a result of Manifest Destiny moved slavery to the center stage of American politics. The Missouri Controversy raised the issue of the westward expansion of slavery. The acquisition of Mexican territories expanded the debate on the expansion of slavery and eventually disbanded the strongest bond at the…

Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8, 1935. His parents are Vernon and Gladys Presley; he also had a twin brother, who died at birth. Presley’s middle name was originally spelled Aron after his brother passed, but he later legally changed it to the more traditionally spelling “Aaron.” Elvis started singing and dancing at a very young age, and he now has immortality even after his death. Elvis Presley is one of the most tremendous musicians of the fifties Rock and…

The Man in Black “Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.” An individual can impact society in a positive or possibly negative manner and Johnny Cash definitely had an impactful life. He was born into a poor, nominal, farming family and had close to nothing during his boyhood. Now, he is know as the father of modern country music. He unquestionably had a rough childhood and his music surely inspired many. Although, he had a great career he, no…

During the early half of the twentieth century, both African American men and women were trapped in the sharecropping system of Georgia (Juneja 80). Black men, were oppressed by issues of race, while black women were oppressed by both race and gender. This extra oppression, set them even lower, which the men in this society took advantage of. Black women almost…

educated African American male living in the South, but instead a sharecropper just like him. That was the impetus that pushed Dr. Mays to get a formal education by any means necessary, because he’d seen the struggle of raising eight children and sharecropping in the South. Dr. Mays eventually went on to go to Barnes College and get a job a professor and then eventually transition from Morris College to Howard and then back to Morehouse College as the…

The time after the Civil War in the United States is one of the most important times in our country’s history. The country was divided over the issue of slavery and the South had been destroyed in the Civil War. The North used a military tactic called “total war” which damaged much of the South. Now African Americans are free from slavery and the people want the South to be punished. This era after the Civil War is called the Reconstruction era. During this time the United States worked to unify…

The other is the group of people that seem to lack significance in society because they do not match the norms of that society. They are the ones that are looked upon as nothing more than a liability; yet, at the same time, they are fought over as if they are a necessity. In 1619, black people shipped from Africa to America have since been used and abused in a biased society where all “men” are created equal in the land of the free. When black people began to learn about the rights bestowed upon…

Vargas 1 Broken Rights In December 5 1865, the 13th amendment was ratified it abolished slavery and granted freedom to the former slaves.. The amendment was followed by the 14th amendment which granted freedom to anyone born in the United States, former slaves included. After the Civil War, African American rejoined society as citizen, the 14th amendment which was issued was supposed to grant and protect those rights. This period after the Civil War was known as the Reconstruction Era.…