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televisions. He argues that African American or the Negroes should be treated fairly by having the same rights as every citizen of the United States. Dr. Martin Luther King uses pathos, ethos, logos, and kairos in his speech to support his claim that "Negro still is not free" (par. 2) and his purpose that all men should be treated equally. In the famous "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. King uses ethos with strong sources in his speech to support and strengthen his argument. The tone of his voice while

Booker T. Washington, in his autobiographical book Up From Slavery, recounts his formative experiences as a child and his work as an adult. Only 9 years old when the Civil War ended, Washington grew up during the Reconstruction Era. With African Americans able to attend school following Emancipation, Washington worked hard to get an education. Race relations of the era and the challenges African Americans faced would come to inspire Washington to pursue teaching and advocacy. He would come to establish

What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people poorly trained and hard-pressed in severe economic competition, without political rights, and with ludicrously inadequate common-school facilities? What can it expect but crime and listlessness, offset here and there by the dogged struggles of the fortunate and more determined who are themselves buoyed by the hope that in due time the country will come to its senses? (DuBois 154). {7/29/17} What can we do better for our country instead

expand the mind and gain more knowledge and further their education. Du Bois feels that there is more the African American than just working the fields or in a factory. Du Bois says, “but if that reconciliation is to be marked by the industrial slavery and civic death of those same black men, with permanent legislation into a position of inferiority…” (701). One can see that Washington feels that African Americans need to just stick to what they know. This would be working in factories, fields

poll taxes, literacy requirements, and banned voting for people convicted of theft, perjury, arson, bribery, and burglary. Whites thought if they could put a limit to the educational achievements of Negroes, they could also stop their aspirations for Negro advancement. By the 1900, black children received a small portion of the state’s funds for education although they accounted for over 50 percent of the school population. Charles Banks influenced Mississippi and

A 1700 quote by judge Samuel Sewall uses the term in a denunciation of slavery. Gradually, however, polite discourse increasingly used the term negro (which dates to at least 1555) and nigger became relegated to the vulgar tongue, increasing in offensiveness over the centuries. So for instance, when Mark Twain uses the word in Huckleberry Finn , by the standards

things (Washington, The Negro and the Signs of Civilization). He also argues that African Americans will need to work hard to acquire these symbols. His persuasion is further enhanced by playing to both sides of the civil rights movement. Washington pleads with white men as well as black men to raise up the former slaves to raise up society as a whole. He claims that with a third to half of the population of a state suppressed that greatness cannot be achieved (Washington,The Negro and the Signs of Civilization)

Two African American men named, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois could be a name replacement for the Reconstruction Period. During the beginning of the twentieth century many acclaimed, educated, activist leaders were commonly called, “New Negros”. A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature

Rising from the shackles of slavery and submission to eventually become a powerful and influential political and cultural force in American Society, the African American legacy has consisted of a slow march towards greater acceptance and status. During the years of slavery from the American Revolution to the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the chief concern among enslaved blacks was freedom. Post-slavery, a vast systemic inequality and exclusion was maintained in the country. Both during and after

Education and complex communication are the two main things that separate us from animals. When slavery was abolished in the early 19th century, people knew it would take some time for African Americans to progress as a race, and most importantly to join in contributing to an integral part of society. To say people knew might be a tough assumption to make, many people doubted this to ever be a possibility. One of the people who contributed to making this a possibility was Booker T Washington. Booker