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    Ida B. Wells was an early proponent of civil rights and was a prominent journalist and activist in the 1890s. Born a slave in Mississippi in the era of the civil war and at the age of sixteen she became the head of her household when both of her parents passed away do to the yellow fever epidemic. To support her five other siblings Wells started to teach in rural Mississippi. Shortly after‚ Wells became an editor of a newspaper and used it as means of addressing injustices against African Americans

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    Ida B. Wells is well known for her influence during the civil rights and women’s rights movements. She was born in 1862 in Holly Springs Mississippi. Her parents died of yellow fever when she was only sixteen years old. She was to be split up from her other six siblings‚ but she dropped out of school and managed to get a job as a teacher and was able to keep her family together. She soon realized the discrimination in pay that there was as she was taking home thirty dollars compared to someone

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    W.E.B. DuBois expressed his feeling of being a problem for being Black. This problem has become a struggle for DuBois to find himself fit in with his community. Because of this problem‚ DuBois believe that he has a double consciousness. According to DuBois‚ a double consciousness means he has to look at one’s self through the eyes of others to understand people’s perspective toward race. By using his double consciousness‚ DuBois can see that color line that has been hidden in the community and among

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    William Edward Burghardt famously recognized as W.E.B Dubois was born on February 23‚ 1868 in Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts. W.E.B Dubois was famously recognized as an American sociologist‚ historian‚ civil rights activist‚ Pan-Africanist‚ author and editor. W.E.B Dubois was born to parents Alfred Dubois and Mary Silvina Du Bois who was apart of a diminutive group of released blacks. During Dubois’ early childhood‚ his parents got divorced in 1870 when W.E.B was two years of age and he lived with

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    Dubois states: “The question‚ then which we must seriously consider is this: What is the real meaning of Race; what has‚ in the past‚ been the law of race development‚ and what lessons has the past history of race development to teach the rising Negro people? I thought the caliber of Dubois’ intelligence and boldness to ask the question was compelling. Throughout this essay I will explore and illustrate how Dubois comes to answer the questions‚ which he asked

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    Booker T. Washington dedicated on having education for actual life jobs and not requesting for fairness from the whites. Booker T focused on receiving assistance from the whites and tolerating their position as blacks in the world. WEB Dubois was dedicated on the precisely the different things of Booker T. Washington. Dubois focused on a plan called the gradualist political strategy. The gradualist political strategy says that Dubois was very attentive on blacks being intelligent to get anywhere

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    extent did Booker T. Washington offer a strategy for blacks to combat racial inequality? ‚ seen trh ‚ compared to other activist leaders‚ however was first endorsed by Booker spire to be something and combating the biggest racial boundary much racial equality as in which is combating racial inequality at the I would regard ‘the age of washington’ not so much as a celebration and his indirect combating of the major racial inequalities of the time‚ I belive Booker T Washington deserves some

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    American Baptist College Sociological Problems: Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. and W.E.B. DuBois Abstract When it comes to sociological problems‚ it is understood that there are a number of issues that concern our community that deal with a wide range of concerns and dilemmas regarding the African-American population. Most of the sociological problems that have extended their presence into our present day society can be traced back to the beginning of institutionalized slavery in the United

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    SIEVERS BLACK AMERICANS OF ACHIEVEMENT BOOKER T WASHINGTON Booker T Washington was born on April 5‚ 1856 in Hale’s Ford‚ Virginia. Booker was the first male person to become a male housekeeper. Booker was the last generation of Black American leaders born into slavery. Booker T Washington parents are (mother) Jane Ferguson and (father) Washington Ferguson. His mother was a slave so while Booker worked in the house his mother had to work outside. When Booker was a little boy he used to see the

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    paralleled by the absence of laws to protect LGBTQ individuals. One of the most violent anti-black ideas supported by Jim Crow Laws was lynching‚ whose horrors were brought into light by political activist‚ Ida B Wells‚ in her 1900 speech in Chicago‚ “Lynch Law in America”. In the speech‚ Wells explains that soon after the Civil War‚ “lynchings began...rapidly spreading into...various States until...the reign of the ‘unwritten law’ was supreme‚” (4). In other words‚ whites‚ shielded by state legislators

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