The Autobiography of Malcolm X

trade, to Jim Crowe and on, black people in America have been subject to injustice for hundreds of years. However, throughout the years there has been figure after figure that stood up for African Americans. From Nat Turner to W.E.B. DuBois, to Malcolm X to Rosa Parks, these individuals took a stand for what they believed in. What they believed in was a color-blind Constitution, a country united, and equal opportunities for all, including African Americans. Many prominent figures paved the way…

Art can inspire one to look beyond the bleakness of his or her environment and aspire for more. Richard Wright, born in 1908, spent his formative years in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee; unfortunately, all three states were notorious for their observance of the racially discriminatory Jim Crow laws. Biracial author Thomas Chatterton Williams was raised in the suburbs of Westfield, New Jersey, where he discovered Hip-Hop culture and nearly allowed its negative influences to deter him from…

Blacks became angered by the television coverage of police beatings, incarcerations of Southern non-violent Blacks, employment discrimination along with the police brutalities in Northern Black neighborhoods (Brooks 136). Huey Newton recalls in his autobiography Revolutionary Suicide, "We had seen Martin Luther King come to Watts in an effort to calm the people and we have seen his philosophy of nonviolence rejected. Black people had been taught nonviolence; it was deep in…

Lindy Hop and The Argentine Tango Dance and music play an important role in the cultural traditions of various societies. I chose to focus on two social dances from different cultures that are still celebrated today. For my familiar dance, I selected Lindy Hop which originated in the United States. This dance form is often shown in movies, and the free flowing movements caught my attention. Through my preliminary research, I discovered the Argentine Tango which interested me due to its…

famous book The Autobiography. Benjamin Franklin He was the first great self-made man in America, a poor democrat born in an aristocratic age supported the cause of independence,, and aided Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence. Practical yet idealistic, hard working and enormously successful. the Scottish philosopher David Hume called him America's "first great man of letters”. Major Works Franklin’s place in literature owes much to his almanac and autobiography: Poor…

the other person of color and because there weren’t rights set to every individual. Race, religion, color, voting rights and national origin were some of the things that were involved in this act. Including Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X. They all played a huge part in this act because of the things they did to make a change in the world. Things weren’t good. People were dying and not coming together as one to make a change. Blacks didn’t…

In the United States 1848, Joseph C. Hart published a narrative called “The Romance Yachting”, the first written book, questioning Shakespeare’s authorship. On the contrary, James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar, spent 15 years writing a book to prove the opposite of Hart. People debating were either curious about the mysterious Shakespeare or loyal Shakespeare supporters and wanted to prove his innocence at all costs. This argument turned into a true conspiracy theory: Shakespeare couldn’t have…

Maya Angelou overcame a difficult and traumatic childhood to become a prize-winning poet and the author of several best-selling autobiographies, including her celebrated first volume, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970). She was also the first African American, and the first woman, invited to read a poem at the inauguration of a president of the United States. Born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928, Maya was three when her parents were divorced. She and her…

The year is 2017 and 398 years after slavery, a cruel institution, was established in the United States, and 152 years after slavery was abolished in the 13th amendment of the US Constitution, we still see African Americans fighting for basic civil rights. The struggle for civil rights is a continuing fight that has evolved and improved over time, especially because of African American literature. There are numerous writers whose stories have shaped not only the civil rights movement, but our…

of eight diverse books is not necessarily the best selection of eight books. This may be true, but to say that no literarily valuable books by minority authors exist is absurd. At present, no Jesuit class reads Twelve Years a Slave, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, or any Toni Morrison novel (all, notably, selections that at one point were taught at Jesuit). It is certainly possible to pick books that, while not optimally representative, are more diverse than those at present. Finally, questions…