W. E. B. Du Bois

Thank You, Ma’am by Langston Hughes tells that story of a teenage boy who tries to steal and older woman's purse, but the women attempts to make him a better man. Langston Hughes shares a few similarities with Roger, the teenager, like not having a set home or family. Langstons parents split up when he was young leaving him to grow up with his grandma and in high school travel around the country with his mom. In the story Roger says “There’s nobody at my house,” hints that Langston didn’t have a…

At the beginning of “Salvation”, Langston Hughes, the narrator, is an ordinary, honest boy who learns from his experiences but succumbs to immense personal pressure. As the main character, Langston is round and develops throughout this short story. He never refuses to go to church, showing that he is not only obedient but also a devout Christian. He acts realistically throughout the special meeting for children. At first, he tries to avoid jumping on the bandwagon by truthfully staying on the…

Booker T. Washington, W.EB. Du Bois and Marcus Garvery are three of the most well known black American activists who believed that there was a chnace for the success and advancement of the black population in the United States. Eventough all three of these men belived in the future of the black American population, each of them possessed a different idea of what this future was going to be. Washington was the least aggressive and he believed in the eventual intergration of the black population…

Life Detained Sympathy and Harlem are two lyric poems where frustration is prevalent. Sympathy and Harlem have many similarities and differences. Harlem is a short poem with four stanzas. Harlem was written in 1951, by Langston Hughes, an African American poet. Similarly, Sympathy was written by an African American poet named Paul Dunbar, in 1899. Sympathy is about a caged bird, and its hatred for the bars enclosing it. In Sympathy, Dunbar is relating the bird to his own life, showing how he is…

“Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes “Let America be America Again,” by Langston Hughes is a poem about someone who feels that America isn’t how it was built up to be. As an observer, the narrator notices many injustices and events that have been influencing his disbelief of this land of the “free.” He is being the voice of many Americans in which he wants to have freedom and equality for everyone. Especially because there is still white power, which keeps many minorities such as…

Jacob Lawrence one of the most notable painters of African American life in the 20th century, he drew his inspiration from the blacks struggle and of triumph referred to his style as "dynamic cubism.” Lawrence’s “Bar and Grill” created harmony between form and content utilizing bold colors, two-dimensional, flat patterns, angular planes and tilted viewpoints. Lawrence’s expression of "the life of Negroes in New Orleans” is an expressionism and social realism style chronicle poverty, injustice…

Comparing Langston Hughes to Maya Angelou When African Americans returned home after World War Two, they still had seen a country that did not give them full rights. A movement began many African Americans stood up by writing poems, articles and books. Two people who made an impact because of what they wrote are Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes. They share similar messages throughout their pieces. Maya Angelous “Still I Rise” and Langston Hughes “I, Too, Sing America” is very similar. Both of…

In the news, especially in America, it’s clear that the discussion about race and crime is still going on. Many cases such as the deaths of black men Michael Brown in Ferguson and Sam DuBose in Cincinnati in the past few years have brought up some of the same questions being asked in The Condemnation of Blackness. A century after the censuses and original reports, social researchers and the rest of the world is wondering, what is the tie between race(specifically the black population) and crime…

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois were two very prominent and influential figures with highly differing opinions on the the racial issues during the reconstruction era in the United States. Although Washington was born into slavery and Dubois was born free, Washington was passive and did not believe in fighting back against racism but in proving himself worthy to be respected among the white population. On the other hand, Dubois, who was born free, was not exposed to slavery or…

Booker T. Washington and W. E. B DuBois used different strategies when dealing with the problems faced by African Americans at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Segregation was a big problem during this time and African Americans were the ones facing the brunt of this issue. Both Washington and DuBois tried to fight for equality of African Americans and were in hopes that their actions, as well as programs, would help aid society toward agreeing with them.…