W. E. B. Du Bois

Langston B. Hughes, was born in Joplin, Missouri. As an African-American, he faced many hardships in furthering his learning. While studying in New York during the Harlem Renaissance, he was inspired to write poetry. He had many works of poetry, “Theme for English B” being a product of the Harlem Renaissance. Everyone in the world has a distinct inclination to meanings of poems, and with these distinctions; comes analysis throughout the mind, body, and soul. The analysis of “Theme for English B”…

Everyone is looking for some form of acceptance, while a select few go as far as wanting reverence. Luckily, there is a convenient tool for achieving either of these pursuits: art. As for fitting in, art can express political or religious interests, which would unite the artist with the cause they represent; however, if the artist wanted to stand out, an expression of the beauty of the World or the individual himself would elevate the artist to a position of individuality. But what does one do…

Laws was Plessy V.S Ferguson. Which basically assured any person with african roots were to abide by said laws. As for the Advancement for equality two main representatives for progression of the black citizen were Booker T. Washington. and W.E.B Du Bois. Washington suggested an approach of…

people all over the world were disunited. W.E.B Du Bois led a silent march in regards to the racial riots in St. Louis that occurred in July, 1917. The violence and tension targeted among the African American communities leaving hundreds of Africans dead and thousands of black citizens fearing for their life leaving the city. Marcus Garvey believed it was time to fight back and for all Africans to unite globally. He called other establish leaders like Du Bois weak and self-serving. Garvey…

The song “Waterfalls” by the girl group TLC is an example of a song using codedness and being decoded improperly. It was released in 1995 as an R&B and Hip Hop Soul Ballad; it stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 list as the number one hit for many weeks in row. When the general public thinks of “Waterfalls,” they think of the catchy chorus that says, “Don 't go chasing waterfalls/ Please stick to the…

Eric Foner’s “A Short History of Reconstruction” is an updated, abridged edition of “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution.” This book redefines how the Reconstruction Era is viewed, in ways historians have not done before. Foner chronologically starts with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to validate his statement that “Reconstruction was not only a specific time period, but also the beginning of an extended historical process: the adjustment of American society to the end of…

The Struggle to for Equality With the aide of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, the end of the civil war in 1865, the addition of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution, African Americans in the South, just like their peers in the North, found themselves as newly freed people. Many dreams of striking it rich and becoming wealthy business owners were now a possibility for a once enslaved population. African Americans could do as they wanted freely with no fears…

There seems to be nothing more unnerving than carrying feelings of undesirability, isolation, struggle, and desolation. As early as the 1600’s African Americans have had to fight for their voices to be heard, for the definition of equality to be understood, and for the barrier between the oppressed and the oppressor to be shattered once and for all. Despite the plethora of adversities that African American people had to face during previous years, a motif was apparent, not giving up. In the…

1 Fences is a play written by the playwright August Wilson, who dedicated himself to writing plays capturing what it was like to be an African American in the United States during every decade of the 20th century. Fences was a play that was specifically written to provide an outlook into the lives of African Americans in America during the 1950s, during the process of demarginalization. Each character of the novel provides a unique perspective to capture different aspects of the “African…

The cultural identities of these men are different yet they are influential in a grasp of their Pan-Africanism’s values and ideas. Mboukou recognizes the social class divide between New World Blacks and the Black Africans in the Pan-African movement. This divide was based on how social advancement opportunities were more frequent for New World Blacks, thus they began to feel that they could lend their material resources to make the Pan African Movement a success. For instance, Middleton…