A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH Mary McLeod Bethune‚ a diamond in the rough‚ became a smooth‚ attractive‚ and precious stone during her time on earth. She was born to a family of ex-slaves; later in life‚ she became an equal right activist for black Americans. Who would have thought she would be advocate and counsel to four US Presidents? Bethune was well known‚ and she was passionate about racial advancements‚ education‚ and equality for blacks. Her exposure to strong‚ independent‚ female role
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Cassie Pearson Honors American Lit. 1/6/13 Race and Racial Injustice Throughout history America has always battled issues with race. Whether it was slaves fighting for freedom‚ African Americans struggling for equality or today’s issue of illegal immigrants‚ race in America is a constant evolving subject. With the struggles of these people have come many inspiring works of literature‚ each voicing the same message of freedom and equality. In the famous speeches of Frederick Douglass‚ Booker
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discrimination and prejudice towards African Americans. Instead of being treated like any other human beings‚ they are looked down upon; they are based on “the evil assumption—that all Negroes lie‚ that all Negroes are basically immoral beings‚ that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women…” (232). However‚ people don’t realize that not everyone is perfect‚ and not just Negroes commit sins but white people and any other type of race does too. Atticus‚ though‚ treats black people with respect
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history and culture. In the beginning of 20th century‚ he was well known to the few scholars who studied Africa. The second most important Pan-Africanist thinker was a Jamaican-born black nationalist Marcus Garvey. His organization‚ the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)‚ had millions of members‚ imagining and creating to go “back to Africa.” Garvey also owned his own shipping company called the Black Star Line and they established in part to transport blacks back to Africa as well as
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“In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the finger‚ yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” (Washington‚ p. 107) This expresses how no matter what race‚ country or gender you are from‚ you are still needed in society to improve the country as a whole. Throughout the beginning of American history‚ Americans have fought for freedom and equality from their mother country. Even in the recent years‚ people fought for gay marriage equality‚ giving homosexuals
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John Howard Griffin was a white man‚ who disguised himself as a black man to further understand the reason why Southerners were harsh to the colored. Throughout the novel‚ Black Like Me John Howard Griffin encompasses scenes of chilling reality to accurately portray the harsh life of being colored in the south‚ gain support for the Fourteenth Amendment‚ and evoke sorrow in the reader. The struggle of being colored in the south is a horrifying struggle that Griffin relayed in Black Like Me. For
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white man wishes to see him. W.E.B. Dubois best define this phenomenon in his book The Souls of Black Folks in which he introduces us to the notion of Double Consciousness. Attempting to explain the concept of Double Consciousness Dubois stated “the Negro is a sort of seventh son‚ born with a veil‚
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promotion unless he gets rid of the painting. Aaron gifts his teacher a painting for her birthday‚ a picture of Christ painted black. Ms. Williams had Aaron tell the class how he came to paint the picture. He tells them that his uncle who teaches Negro History was telling him about all the great black folks that had made history. And he said black folks were once powerful people on earth‚ and then he asked about Jesus‚ he said no one ever proved whether he was black or white. Somehow a feeling
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DuBois and Washington on Education Over 100 years ago W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington began a debate over strategies for black social and economic progress‚ which is still prevalent today. Booker T. Washington believed that the role of education for African Americans should be an industrial one‚ where as W.E.B DuBois wanted African Americans to become engaged in a Liberal Arts education. Washington ’s approach to solving the problems African Americans faced was rooted in his belief in
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differs upon whom you ask. “The etymology of nigger is often traced to the Latin niger‚ meaning black. The Latin niger became the noun Negro “black person” in English‚ and simply the color black in Spanish and Portuguese” (Pilgrim). “The linguist Robin Lakoff speculates that nigger became a slur when users of the term became aware that it was a mispronunciation of Negro and decided to continue using the mispronunciation as a signal of contempt- much as individuals sometimes choose to insult
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