Spingarn Medal

Chukwuma Njoku Book report Richard Wright’s Native Son Who Was He? What Qualifies him? Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of controversial books, short stories, some of which are very popular. Quite a bit of his writing concerns racial topics, particularly identified with the predicament of African Americans amid the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth hundreds of years, who endured separation and savagery in the South, and the North. Wright finished…

Her passion for the African American community showed through her poetry and she was undoubtedly awarded for the unparalleled achievements that better the lives of not only African American people, but also for people all over the world. The Spingarn Medal is awarded by the NAACP to call the attention of the American people to the existence of distinguished merit and achievement among Americans of African descent and to serve as a reward for such achievement.…

Roosevelt selected Mary McLeod Bethune, a prominent black educator, as a special adviser on minority affairs. Bethune and a number of other blacks targeted national attention to the injustices of lynching, segregation, and disenfranchisement. The decade witnessed a historic shift in black voting patterns. She was deeply grounded in family, religion, and committed to racial advancement. Her biggest aspiration was for all African-Americans to reach “the promised land of liberty.” Bethune acclaimed…

Poetry plays a role in politics that is often overlooked by the personalities patrolling today’s political battlefield. In prior eras, poetry took a more obvious and up-front role in politics. Poetry influenced some of the most powerful movements throughout American history— perhaps most clearly seen during the Civil Rights movement. Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes became a role model for Martin Luther King that grew from their similar background and heritage. King’s writing process…