Andrew Yuen Black History Month Research Paper

During my early years of school, I remember being taught white accomplishments and wondering if blacks and other people of color had made any significant contributions to today's world. I noticed that television consist of all white people. Throughout my research paper I hope to cover certain aspects of African American heritage. Aspects such as blacks making up the largest minority group in the United States, although Mexican-Americans are rapidly changing that. The contributions blacks have provided to our country are immeasurable. Unfortunately though rather than recognizing these contributions, white America would rather focus on oppressing and degrading these people. As a consequence American

Slavery began in the late 16th century to early 18th century. Africans were brought to American colonies by white masters to come and work on their plantations in the South. They were treated harshly with no payments for all their hard work. In addition, they lived under harsh living conditions, and this led to their resistance against these harsh conditions. The racism towards the African Americans who were slaves was at its extreme as they did not have any rights; no civil nor political rights.

“Cooning” was a TV show or Film usually they act like idiot behavior that misrepresents African American culture. I think idiot because that shows a deliberate act. Many people called “coons.” Yes, I saw some examples today’s culture some white people still discriminate black people. Some white people were enjoying it, and that seems to some people they insulted African- American behaves. African-American got angry. It was not fair at all that behavior. All are good examples.

Over the course of this semester, I was introduced to many people, ideas, writings, and discussions that sparked my interest and enlightened me on African American history. However, I feel like this was just the beginning of my journey of learning the history of my people, as there is still so much out there to be brought to the surface. Prior to taking this course, I was always ignorant on the topic of African American history and simply made the connection to slavery. Additionally, I was unaware of other black activist, movements, and struggles that I had the chance to witness for the first time in this class. I came to a realization of how deprived of this information I was, because other historic events have been deemed more important. A quote that stuck with me throughout the course that was made by Arthur Schomburg was, “... African history and negro history, are the missing pages of world history”.

African-American history are those events that started with the first slave ships from Africa to the Caribbean Islands and carry through their journey as a people both individually and collectively to today's societies across the Americas.

Earl Lloyd was born in April 3,1928 and died February 26,2015.He grew up at Alexandria Virginia.He was American Professional Basketball player.He was raised by his father name Theodore Benjamin Lloyd and mother name Daisy Mitchell Lloyd in Alexandria .His father worked at a coal industry and his mother stayed home taking care of him.His parents teached him to be a good student and a good athlete at Lisle Crouch Elementary school and Parker Gray High school.Lewis Randolph,his coach enrolled him to West Virginia State University after his graduation.He played for the Yellow Jackets and led them to 2 CIAA Conference and a tournament championship.

@59. Who played the role of the heavyweight champ Jack Johnson in the movie The Great White Hope?

Growing up black history month seemed to be something that was rehearsed, I remember in 4th grade my fellow classmates would choose someone they wanted to be, learn a short dialogue about that person’s life and that was it. Then it got creative, pieces of papers handed out to everyone in the class to color Martian Luther King and Rosa Parks when in all actuality there was more to our history. Over the course of time the perception of African Americans has continued to be the same and even with a legacy of people who have paved the way for us many people don’t seem to appreciate it. Black history month has lost its value over time especially in my generation.

Black History Month is a very important month which, occupies a very important place in history. We remember and celebrate the contributions of many heroes for giving us hope and a remarkable history. We honor their accomplishments and determination to give us freedom. I am thankful and joyful for this month as it is a time of rejoicement of those individuals who gained rights for their race. A period of time when these heroes stood up for what they believed was right was during the period of racial segregation.

Black history month has been celebrated for many years in America; People often celebrated the struggle through events or films but not all citizens liked the events or films. For instance, in the book Between The World and Me, the author coates disliked how the people were being shown to celebrate the legacy of African Americans.

My research paper for Black History Month I will be talking about Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta Georgia. Martin who was a Baptist minister and a civil-rights activist. The seismic race relation in the U.S. started in the mid 1950’s. Martin played a pretty big role in ending legal segregation of all Black or African-American citizens in the South and in other areas of the nation. With the creation of both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and also the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Martin later received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 with some other honors.

The elevator arrived, so Mrs. Ansley entered it and it took her down to the first floor. She walked out onto the street and even the air smelled differently. It smelled like freedom, and a little bit like sweet revenge. Finally! Now Mrs. Slade could not think of herself any better.

Even as she rummaged again through the work-ups, there wasn’t any clear evidence Rosie could find that gave her a thumbnail of hope. She kept running into dead ends and in just twenty minutes, she had interviews scheduled with Hector and Barry Langdon’s son. On a better day, they’d have a choice; either eat from her hand, or be sent inside a jungle to a hungry pride of lions. But today, all she could do was stare at a photo of Frank Daggott and wonder how he had gotten this far. How could he not even have been spotted? His picture not only revealed his large size, but she honed in on his right hand, which looked like it could easily encircle a grown man’s neck. Rosie was confident that Daggott was that man that strangled and murdered Jouka Taekalla. What puzzled her was that someone like Dyanna Montarro could actually fall for the two-bit part-time loan shark muscle. Rosie understood the man had certain aura of power; he put four NYPD officers in the hospital. But a man without brains and integrity was no more attractive than a muddy-filled pond inside the Serengeti.

African-American’s culture has changed in many ways over time. Before the 1900’s, African-American’s could hardly voice, express, or convey their culture. In the short story, “Everyday Use”, by Alice Walker, a family of three southern women all deal with the issue of adaptation to their new growing culture. Dee, Maggie, and Mama all accept the progressing African-American culture era. However, all three of the women embrace the new-found culture in different ways, as did many women in those times.

She was here on an undercover assignment to investigate the activities of serial killings in the little town. Her assignment was to pose as a the owner of an art gallery, but she jogged the streets of the town very early in the morning at five am searching for clues to the mystery murders and would indirectly be interrogating some customers who visit the