Essay On African American Participation

In America, we are told that it is the land where everything and anything is possible. For many years, it wasn’t like that for African American. With many hard work, strength, and courage African American manage to earn the right to an education. To the African American community education became more of a need than a want. We’ve learn that education is such a powerful asset that with it you are unstoppable. You can do so much if you put your time and energy to it. Having an education to African American is the one hope for a brighter and better

The aspect of African-American Studies is key to the lives of African-Americans and those involved with the welfare of the race. African-American Studies is the systematic and critical study of the multidimensional aspects of Black thought and practice in their current and historical unfolding (Karenga, 21). African-American Studies exposes students to the experiences of African-American people and others of African descent. It allows the promotion and sharing of the African-American culture. However, the concept of African-American Studies, like many other studies that focus on a specific group, gender, and/or creed, poses problems. Therefore, African-American Studies must overcome the obstacles in order to

Student Union Address at BSU’s 3rd annual Black Faculty, Staff, and Student Mixer. This years theme is “The Resurgence of College Activism: 1960 vs. 2016” With the current racial climate in the United States, we chose a theme that can incorporate not only student activism on campus, but in their general community as well. The distinguished student that is chosen will be tasked with conducting a ten to twenty minute address in front of the their peers and faculty/staff on campus regarding either A) Answering the questions “How can the black student community

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

Dawning the year of 1895, the future of Black America finally rested in the hands of the very people to whom it concerned, the black community. Two popular philosophies were presented, and the argument between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois began. These two advocated for very different means of acquiring equality, Washington promotes the economic survival of the masses while Dubois promoted the superior intelligence of the few. The struggle between representing the masses and isolating the few proved to be the deciding factor when determining which philosophy was capable of supporting the desired future of Black America. A future where the economic foundation of the masses proved to be the key to promoting equality among white and black America.

The African-American community is comprised of 34 million people, and makes up approximately 12.8 percent of the American population (Barker, Jones, Tate 1999: 3). As such, it is the largest minority group in the United States. Yet, politically, the black community has never been able to sufficiently capitalize on that status in order to receive the full benefits of life in America. Today, African-Americans, hold less than 2 percent of the total number of elected positions in this country (Tate, 1994: 3) and the number of members within the community that actually partake in voting continues to drop. In spite of these statistics, as of 1984, a telephone survey found that 70

In recognizing that the hard work or removing barriers to success for Black Male and other marginalized communities does not exist in a vacuum, partnerships with like-minded organizations that can play an extremely important role in expanding the efforts of the WRF MMWEC beyond Arkansas and create help create a national plan of action. One such partnership is with organizations like the Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) Black Male Funders Learning & Action Network (LAN), which is a network of funders that currently direct resources to initiatives to improve life outcomes for Black males. By partnering and receiving financial support from ABFE, the ability to share best practices, aggregate data, and build a strategic plan

Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru all had life changing experiences, faced resistance and they also changed their countries. These individuals changed their countries in positive ways. Melba Pattillo Beal’s was the first African American to ever enroll in a all white school. Before her enrolment the schools were all segregated. Her enrolment in an all white school was the first major step towards desegregation in her country. Jackie Robinson’s was the first African American to integrate Major League Baseball. Before his integration into Major League Baseball all African American players were forced to play in the Negro Leagues. His integration in the the Major Leagues was not an easy one. He faced a lot of resistance but by sticking it out and proving he was as good of a player as the white players he paved the way for other African Americans to follow in his footsteps. Feng Ru’s was the first Chinese aviator and he was also the first chinese aviator to ever leave

Growing up as a Negro woman at the turn of the twentieth century is no easy task. Being born with strikes against me and no education is a struggle. The partisan treatments of segregation, social restrictions, lynching, and having no voting rights just don’t sit well with me. Many others don’t fully understand what it’s like to truly start from the bottom and that’s why we need courageous leaders like William Edward Burghardt DuBois and Booker T. Washington to advocate for equitable dealings amongst the races. Washington’s plan had many shortcomings and I’m so glad DuBois devised a plan superior to his.

The foundation for African-American participation in the Civil War began more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the war. African-Americans had been in bondage since early colonial times. In 1776, when Jefferson proclaimed mankind’s inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the institution of slavery had become firmly established in America. African-Americans worked in the tobacco fields of Virginia, in the rice fields of South Carolina, and toiled in small farms and shops in the North. Foner and Mahoney report in A House Divided, America in the Age of Lincoln that, “In 1776, slaves composed forty percent of the population of the colonies from Maryland south to Georgia, but well below ten percent in the colonies to the North.” The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 provided a demand for cotton thus increasing the demand for slaves. By the 1800’s slavery was an institution throughout the South, an institution in which slaves had few rights, and could be sold or leased by their owners. They lacked any voice in the government and lived a life of hardship. Considering these circumstances, the slave population never abandoned the desire for freedom or the determination to resist control by the slave owners. The slave 's reaction to this desire and determination resulted in outright rebellion and individual acts of defiance. However, historians place the strongest reaction in the enlistment of African-Americans in the war itself.

The future of our world lies in the hands of our youth. These children are our future educators, doctors, lawyers and even the people that might find the cure for cancer. My job as an inspiring teacher is to educate and provide a role model of excellence but more personally Black excellence. For years the African American community has been frowned upon and belittle as human beings. It is time for our race to rise above these perceptions not with words but with actions. So what better way to start than with our African American youth.

Jefferson Davis stated in the pre-Civil War years to a Northern audience, “You say you are opposed to the expansion of slavery... Is the slave to be benefited by it? Not at all. It is not humanity that influences you in the position which you now occupy before the country,'; (Davis, The Irrepressible Conflict, 447). The Northerners had not freed the slaves for moral issues; the white majority did not have anything but its own economic prosperity on its mind. The African Americans gained their emancipation and new rights through the battling Northern and Southern factions of the United States, not because a majority of the country felt that slavery possessed a ‘moral urgency’. As the years passed and the

Communities of color – the people, organizations, and institutions – face enormous challenges as a result of structural racism, economic disparity, social dysfunction, and cultural domination in American society. NCDI focuses on building capacity for social change to enable communities of color to play a pivotal role in transforming the social institutions and practices that perpetuate racial injustice and inequality. We approach our work from the point of view that capacity building is part of a much larger and more purposeful journey that is beyond facilitating the next meeting or creating the best strategic plan – i.e., a journey that keeps social transformation at the center of the capacity building process. Capacity building focused on

As an African American born and raised on the south-side of Chicago, I witnessed first hand what the lack of education, cultural identity, and community development can leads to without the presence of community centers, leaders, activism, etc. From this, over the years, I’ve consciously involved myself within works that focuses on uplifting underrepresented groups through cultural activism, the humanities, and educational programming.

When I was 14, I made a bucket list and the first item on that list was to change the world. specifically, I wrote change the world overnight. Reflecting back on that list 8 years later, I’m not sure what 14 year old me meant by that. However, what I am sure about is that even then, and quite frankly as far back as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make a difference. My whole life I have always been very aware of the privileges I have and the talents I possess and how I can use those to affect change in not only my immediate surroundings but in the greater community. There have been so many times that I wanted to become absorbed in the problems and disadvantages I face in my life. The fact that I am a black, bisexual woman raised in a single parent household, with a father who I did not know for the first four years of my life and who was merely a child support payment and monthly visit for the next 12, however I realized, that does not change anything. I am not claiming that I’m selfless or a martyr, I just learned how to channel my struggles into more productive means. I realized that there are individuals out there who need help and the perspective and experience I have as a marginalized individual is valuable and important.