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thought and runs with it. He paints some of the most brilliant artists in Harlem area that goes the manor as people who don’t care and are using it as a source to not actually have to do real work.” Ill be damned if ill join any crusade to save the Negros masses”(pg41). This quote from one of the characters really shows how race is reproduced in infants of the spring because even as a black man the character Raymond is using his privileged position in niggerati manor to separate himself from the rest

Slavery was abolished after the Civil War, but the Negro race still was not accepted as equals into American society. To attain a better understanding of the events and struggles faced during this period, one must take a look at its' literature. James Weldon Johnson does an excellent job of vividly depicting an accurate portrait of the adversities faced before the Civil Rights Movement by the black community in his novel “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.” One does not only read this book

an 1897 article, The Conservation of the Races, Du Bois wrote, "For the development of Negro genius, only Negroes bound and welded together, Negroes inspired by one vast ideal, can work out in its fullness the great message we have for humanity." Before the Russian Revolution, he called blacks living in the United States, "the advanced guard of Negro people." In 1899, Du Bois published The Philadelphia Negro, a pioneering work of sociology. Du Bois interviewed as many as 5,000 people and sought

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

He used the hatred of white people to fuel his passion to convince and teach the white people of the "New Negro." By applying his talents he constantly impressed and convinced Whites that Negroes could have intellectual prowess. Both Bernard and Belton lived their lives in this manner; Bernard assuming the role of the intellectual mulatto, and Belton as the surprisingly overachieving "New Negro." This distinction worked to Bernard's advantage, yet it is contrarily problematic for Belton. Belton

his art and the power of words to bring forth the issues of injustice suffered in America, he was Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was a Negro Writer, born at the turn of the century in 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His ancestry included three major race groups, however, he lived and was identified as a Negro or Colored (Hughes referred to himself as "colored" or "Negro," because those were the terms used to refer to African-Americans in this era). He spent most of his early years with his grandmother

Black History speech: I 'm Black and I 'm Proud As we come to the close of another black History Month, we have been reflecting upon our heritage. Upon such people as Chrispus Atticks, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, George Washington Culver, Dr. Charles Drew, Thurgood Marshal, Malcolm X, and of course Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many, many more. And as we remember and review these names we realize that in any other society this would be a great list of historical figures. But being in

Independent Reading: The Souls of Black Folk     William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author, writer and editor. He is an important figure in both African American history and in American Literature, who is widely recognized for his pursuit of social justice and literary imagination. He was influenced to write The Souls of Black Folk, a non-fiction seminal work in the history of sociology, in 1903 in order to explain the problem

relations among the community. “The Black Studies Program: Strategy and Structure” was published Fall of 1972 in The Jounal of Negro Education. It’s contents are a relection on the years before when colleges and universitys were allowing African Americans to attend , but did not provide curriculum about or for African Americans. Essay, non-fiction Soul- is the spiritual

restricted the ability of African American’s to practice and cultivate their own culture. If Black culture is to be understood, then we must be intrigued by the historical progression of terms used to describe Black Americans. Graduating from the term Negro, to colored, Black and currently African- American. I often wonder, does the name change alter the perceptions and meaning of Black culture. A Challenge to my Worldview There are times when I find myself generalizing about how other cultures and