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women. Through her business, she ventured into philanthropy and activism. She made numerous financial donations to many organizations, and she also became a patron of the arts. Her extravagant estate served the purpose of a gathering venue for many African American people. Following her death, the Madame Walker Theatre Centre opened in 1927 to ensure her legacy remained. Madam C. J. Walker was born on December 23rd, 1867 as Sarah Breedlove, to Owen and Minerva Breedlove, who were former slaves enslaved

Annotated Bibliography Douglass, Frederick. “Learning to Read and Write,” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845): 100-105 In “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, Douglass writes about his experience as a slave in 19th century United States. He argues that racism is a prevalent problem in the United States. He writes about how the concept of slavery has resulted in him being treated poorly. Due to the color of his skin, he has been treated as property rather than a human being

resulting in a change in the treatment of their slaves. Frederick Douglass’ slave-owner in 1832 was a man called “Captain Auld” by his slaves. Douglass describes him as a “slaveholder without the ability to hold slaves”. However, after attending a Methodist camp-meeting and experiencing religion, Auld becomes crueler. Douglass had the slightest hope that Auld’s involvement with religion would incline him to emancipate his slaves or—at the very least—be more humane and kind. Douglass was disappointed

Abstract Inez Beverly Prosser was known as one of the first African American women to earn a doctorate in psychology. Prosser is best known for her dissertation on the non-academic development of Negro children in mixed and segregated schools. Prosser wanted to find out what conditions worked best for children of color being that there weren’t many educational options for them in the south. Her dissertation examined personality differences in black children that attended voluntarily segregated or

generation, which comes from his countless hit songs involving social issues, specifically racism. Lamar’s third studio album, To Pimp A Butterfly, was nominated for 11 Grammy’s in 2015, which was made-up of 16 songs explaining his view on racism on the African American race. Lamar raps, “If the government want me dead, plant cocaine in my car // Would you judge me a drug-head or see me as K. Lamar? // Or question my character and degrade me on every blog?” (Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Man). Lamar is discussing

have permitted African Americans to have a chance to obtain a secondary education with beneficial subjects. They were made to give African Americans citizens rise to instructive opportunities. Having negated old generalizations that expressed that blacks were

Mockingbird” (Harper Lee), then what are we? Uneducated, crowd-pleasing citizens who won’t form our own values. The inability to form our own values causes everyone to cast the same vote. No one expresses different opinions, every white man downgrades African Americans, every male is “superior” to every female, and every child is of lesser value to adults. So, by being an individual, although one may be yelled

A Day in the Kitchen Description of Subject The subject is a twenty-nine-year-old woman. She is a brown skinned African American. She is five feet, two inches tall, she weighs two hundred and fifty-three pounds. The subject has dark brown eyes. Her hair is in a large curly afro style. Her hair has dark red roots with a lighter red on the tip of her hair. She has three piercings in each ear, with gold (xoxo) ear rings in each piercing. The top piercing has a small gold (xoxo) loop ear ring, the middle

On Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 at around 9:05pm, a group of people gathered to attend a bible study session at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Roof attended the session and was welcomed by the group. An hour into their session, when the group began their prayer, Roof pulled out a glock 41 .45-caliber handgun (2015) and ended the lives of nine of the fourteen group members. In the aftermath of attack, all our nation could do is ask, “Why?” Why someone

Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the "mother of the modern day civil rights movement" in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. Her quiet courageous act changed America, its view of black people and redirected the course of history. Mrs. Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley, February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She