Essay on The Pursuit of Human Progress

Sixty-one years ago, there were nine African American students starting their first day of school in Little Rock Central High School. No African American student had ever gone to Central before them. This was all made possible by Brown v. Board of Education and the Blossom Plan several years later. The news had gotten around quickly about the integration of Central. The segregationists had madly protested in a flurry of anger. They started going to violent means to prevent the integration. The news stations all over the world had caught the events and shared their stories across the globe. The press played a big part in illuminating the events of the civil rights movement, however they presented biased or inaccurate information that caused

Thurgood Marshall was significant as he was the first African-American to be appointed a position in the U.S Supreme Court, in 1967. His significance to civil rights is evident between 1947 and 1967, in one contemporary newspaper he was even referred to as “Mr Civil Rights”. In 1947-1961 Thurgood worked as the NAACP’s lawyer, where he argued his most famous cases – Brown v Topeka (1954) and Browder v Gayle (1956). Furthermore, the appointments by both, President John F. Kennedy and President Johnson, are significant in themselves because he was the first African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Despite his influence on the civil rights movement, Thurgood took a lot of criticism which effected his attitudes towards other people involved with the civil rights movement and, in general.

Authors Sheldon Stern and Jeremy Stern are mentioned in the article as two of the people that hated what Texas had done with the history books, and they said that the writing the the texts "distorts or suppressed less triumph or more nyanced aspects of our past that the Board found politically unacceptable (slavery and segregation are all but ignored, while religious influences are grossly exaggerated)..." Think back in time, I remember that my history book only made references to race inequality, slavery, civil rights, and african american heroes in just a few sections, when there was so much to talk about. Not until recently, I found that Rosa Parks was much more than the black lady who refused to give up her seat in the bus, yet I had to get to college to learn more about her, because my history book simply lacked this

Thurgood Marshall was possibly one of the most important and influential people in our history. He was from Baltimore, Maryland, and attended segregated schools growing up. He decided to go into law, graduating first in his class at Howard University School of Law. He would eventually become the first African American justice on the Supreme Court. In this essay I will investigate the life, the career, and the legacy of Thurgood Marshall.

Thurgood Marshall was a U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil right propagandist. Therefore, Marshall earned an important place in American history on the basis of two accomplishments. First, as legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), he guided the prosecution that devastated the legal groundwork of Jim Crow segregation. Second, as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and the nation’s first black justice. He crafted a particular jurisprudence distinguishable by uncompromising liberalism, unusual attentiveness to empirical scrutiny beyond the formalities of law, and an indefatigable willingness to dissent.

The prologue of Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That changed America by Wil Haygood, discusses President Lyndon Johnson’s nomination of Thurgood Marshall, which was described as putting white supremacy in a coffin. Showdown describes the process that Thurgood Marshall took before and after his Supreme Court nomination. Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer who was very successful in arguing before the Supreme Court. Marshall transformed the world of African Americans to opportunities. The achievements of Brown v. Board of Education, Shelley v. Kraemer, and other cases wouldn’t have been possible without Marshall and the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Brown v. Board of Education

Thurgood Marshall - well known for his victory in the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka - has died at the age of 84. Marshall’s education, determination, and appreciation for the United States Constitution and the rule of law are paramount factors which led him to become one of the most accomplished African Americans during the civil rights era. He played a key role in advancing equality for African-American men and women in the United States.

It makes no sense to lie to children, and telling them one side of history is essentially lying to them. In chapter 1, “Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals,” having rich white males dominate the how we learn is not beneficial to explaining the true essence of the races in America. Explaining the warfare and what the white males went through, as well as only honoring holidays based on white males’ religion is “single-group studies.” I realize that yes the Founding Fathers helped to create the country and eventually the public-school system, but there is no need to do everything like they did. We should be more open to every race. This country was founded because they wanted to be free, but the only people who are free are white males. Yeah, it was democracy for that period, but we as a country need to challenge ourselves to be open making ourselves better by being open to one another. If we keep social class as an issue to learn then how free are we? I think that this country is melting pot of all sorts of races and instead of oppressing it, it should be celebrated. Once children start learning about other people’s culture they can start to create their own opinion of what is right and wrong. But the people in power, the white males, do not want that which is wrong. I cannot stress this enough, we’re all immigrants to this country. Is it because we freaking kicked Native

George S. Patton once said, “Prepare for the unknown by studying how other in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.” As human beings we must be able to learn from our mistakes so we will never be forced to make them again. In spite of that, a large number of students have begun to take offense to learning about the not so glamourous parts of our history and those parts of history are quickly beginning to fade from the textbooks in fear of offending someone. A prime example of this is given to us in the article “Trigger-unhappy” where Professor Serhat Tanyolacar displayed Ku Klux Klan imagery on his campus. Even after making it clear that he was “using Klan imagery to provoke debate about racism”, Mr. Tanyolacar

In Melonyce McAfee’s CNN article “McGraw-Hill to Rewrite Textbook After Mom’s Complaint,” she talks of an upset mother who denounces a textbook that calls slaves “workers” and “immigrants,” and how the textbook company, McGraw-Hill, plans to mend this issue. McGraw-Hill will be altering a part of its textbook because a Texas mother, Roni Dean-Burren, made a video complaining about a passage that mentioned slaves as “workers” and “immigrants” (par 1-2). McAfee also states that Dean-Burren recalls her son had shown her this caption originally (8 & 10). McGraw-Hill conveyed it will be fixing the wording and alterations will be in the digital copy immediately and will be changed in the next print (4-5). Some people are hoping the company recalls

The term, progress, is synonymous with phrases that denote moving forward, growth, and advancement. It seems unorthodox then that Ronald Wright asserts the world has fallen into a progress trap, a paradox to how progress is typically portrayed as it contradicts the conventional way life is viewed: as being a natural progression from the outdated and tried towards the new and improved. Wright posits that it is the world’s relentless creation of innovative methods that ironically contributes to the progress trap rather than to progress itself, the intended objective. Wright’s coinage of the term “progress trap” refers to the phenomenon of innovations that create new complications that are typically left without resolve which exacerbate

social order. The Progressive movement, 1901 to 1917, was ultimately the triumph of conservatism rather than a

Our nation’s history plays an important role in American society, it sets forth the foundation on which our morals and values are based on as Americans. If we truly are one united nation under God, and our morals and values are based on what history tells us, why is it then that there is so much disparity among the American people. One reason is that our history textbooks and what we are taught by educational leaders only emphasize American Exceptionalism. The history of our nation is not fully disclosed, it omits the nasty and ugly parts. It is time that the U.S. let their skeletons out of the closet, the truth needs to be told no matter how ugly or nasty it is. The period in history known as the Nadir of Race relations, 1890 through the1960’s between whites and blacks is a prime example of American Exceptionalism.

One of the biggest mistakes that the white population makes in Mainstream American society regarding the way they view racism is the way in which they actually think or envision racism. Racism is thought to be events that have happened in history, but that don’t necessarily happen “anymore”. Many of American’s that are white typically think of significant occurrences such as slavery, segregation, wars between races, and internment camps. Racism is viewed very differently for the non-white population. Discussed in lecture by Professor Chernega, “non-whites think of racism in terms of something that happened to them yesterday, today, or even potential racism they will face in the future” (Chernega, 2017). This produces two very different views that two different populations experience simultaneously. There is a reason for this difference in understanding what discrimination means. It is no surprise that blacks have faced a much longer period of discrimination when compared to whites. Another idea that plays a large part in the reason for these differences of understandings is the way in which history is told. Many historic stories are told as if racism is something that only occurred in the past and doesn’t necessarily happen anymore. More often than not, racism is not addressed as a current issue when historic events are explained. Author Kohl discusses the issues regarding children’s literature

This was the view of many legislators at the Texas State Board of Education with the adoption of an amended social science curriculum in 2010. Of many changes, one issue stood out more than others, the state education curriculum addresses slavery as a, “side issue to the Civil War”. (Brown, 2015) The results of this political action shows when James W. Loewen reviewed Texas state textbooks to