The Book of Negroes

workers, the union was a huge factor in the success of the Pullman Porters in United States. American Negroes were joining the labor market…

the 1930’s, in the midst of the Great Depression in the small fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. As a close community, the citizens of Maycomb all know each other well. The main character of Harper Lee’s novel, Scout Finch, is affected through the book by her environment. Maycomb is a small place, isolated from any of the major cities and towns. Scout is a tomboy who lives in a small town. The small town ideologies such as black people are only three-fourths of a person. That men and women have…

Woodson in the Mis-Education of the Negro. To see how a book printed in the 30s still has a reflection on us today. How we have not been educated to our capabilities because in my opinion we are not seen as equals. From our class lecture I was to inform everyone on two inventors, and inventions, achievement…

prejudice. Lily living with the house full of negroes. "Staying in a color house with colored woman, eating off their dishes, laying on their sheets--it was not something I was against, but I was brand new to it, and my skin I never felt so white to me (SLOB, 78).” Throughout the whole book the prejudice of racism is shown thought Lily and her journey. Lily struggles to overcome her own senses of racialism and stereotypes shown in different ways in the book. Lily Owens a white girl falls in love…

In the sleepy town of Maycomb, like other Southern towns in this era, suffer considerably during the Great Depression. Poverty reaches from the privileged families, like the Finches, to the unpopular Negroes and “white trash” Ewells, who live on the outskirts of town. Harper Lee paints a vivid picture of life in this humid Alabama town where tempers and bigotry explode into conflict. Due to the Tom Robinson case we will see certain themes come to life throughout specific individual descriptions.…

The book has demonstrated these, through the eyes of Scout, an innocent 6 years old who towards the end becomes a more mature and understanding 9-year-old. The book compasses a 3 year period and explores many issues in Maycomb County which are all still pervasive in today’s…

Folk” and “Black Reconstruction in America”. He believed that the American people are being taught wrong about blacks. He wanted to reconstruct the stereotype of African Americans. He thought that many people were taught blacks were ignorant, that Negroes were lazy,dishonest, and extravagant. He pushed for people to realize the African American community were more than that, and that they were people too. He was a big founder in the NAACP.…

participants in such a society. From my observation, when immigrants come to this land, they begin businesses. Dr. Woodson was not lying when he wrote “Foreigners see this opportunity as soon as they reach our shores and begin to manufacture and sell to Negroes. “ (Woodson 48) What do you think of when I say Chinese businesses? Some of you may think of Chinese restaurants. What do you think of when I say Vietnamese businesses? Some of you may think of nail salons. What do you think of when I…

Major League baseball, Joe Louis was heavyweight champion of the world, and “Sugar” Ray Robinson was the welterweight champion. “The New York Amsterdam News, our local weekly Negro newspaper, suggested that the United States was now going to treat Negroes as equals for the first time,” Myers recalled on page 35. He also recalls his life being revolved around school and church, and the integration that the community detained. “And the church always had whites involved in some capacity,” Myers…

prosecute. How did they develop their humanity, or lack of, was it the way they were raised? Their upbringing determines what they are sensitive, or insensitive to. A white raised in a racist community, would have an insensitivity, or blind spot to negroes. Children are affected by the things and experiences exposed to them, those experiences determine what their blind spots are. Children are influenced by almost everything around them. They see someone who they think is cool, they want to act…