Malith Wijeratne Professor Julie Marzano RDG055-01 July 7‚ 2011 Madame C.J. Walker was an inventor‚ businesswoman‚ philanthropist and a social activist who made her fortune by developing and marketing a hugely successful line of beauty and hair products for black women. The Guinness Book of Records cites Walker as the first female‚ black or white who becomes a millionaire by her own achievements. Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23‚ 1867 on a Delta‚ Louisiana plantation‚ this daughter of former
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vote is granted. Several hundred are elected in state assemblies and Congress. Northern troops occupied the South to enforce the new amendments of the Constitution. Booker T. Washington in 1881‚ black leader and advocate of conciliation‚ founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. And the Supreme Court nullified the law on civil rights in 1875 declaring unconstitutional. In 1896 Stop Plessy against Ferguson: the Supreme Court establishes access "separate but equal" to blacks and whites in the railways
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Issa Rae has always been an awkward girl; she’s always worn the wrong pants‚ kissed the wrong boy‚ and felt the wrong way‚ or simply been the wrong girl. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a dazzling collection of essay about growing up learning to love the things in your life that makes it unique‚ even when those things also make it mighty awkward. She writes about being a black girl who just cannot dance‚ about being unhappy working in cubicle as her web series was taking off‚ about not
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Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison. ‘Could he have meant- hell‚ he must have meant‚ the principle‚ that we were to affirm the principle on which the country was built and not the men‚ or at least not the men who did the violence. Did he mean say “yes” because he knew the principle was bigger than the men‚ greater than the numbers and the vicious power and all the methods used to corrupt its name?’ So asked the invisible man‚ the protagonist never named in the novel‚ in relation to the confunding
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In the early history of the civil rights movement two men‚ Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois‚ offered solutions to the cold discrimination of blacks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Washington taking the more incremental progressive approach was detested by Du Bois who took the radical approach of immediate and total equality both politically and economically. And although both views were needed for progress Washington’s "don’t rock the boat" approach seemed to be the most
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The Life & Times of Justin A. Craig By: Justin Craig Justin Allen Craig was born on December the 24th 1993 in Beverly Hills California‚ the second child‚ to parents Amelia Maria Fuentes and Jeffry Allen Craig. Being apart of the first generation of children to be born and raised in the United States on both sides‚ he was brought up with a privileged lifestyle. His father coming from a small island off the coast of Florida better known as the Bahamas and mother hailing from a small country
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“Will show you evilness‚ you’ll give us your time” Fireside Chats on WW2 edited by Kevin Gamboa -Perez U. Breaking down the Japanese Code Only six months after Japan attacked Pear Harbor‚ another battle took place in Midway. It was the Battle of Midway that involved the United States and Japan. Many people thought it was the turning point in World War II. The battle started in June 4 1942 and ended June 7 1942. The Japanese had superiority in ship and aircraft. So‚ how did
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Lynching 1930 From 1890 to 1930‚ The Tuskegee Institute recorded a total of 3384 cases‚ 612 whites and 2772 blacks. However‚ it is obvious that blacks were subjected more to lynching from 1900 to 1930 where there were only 265 cases of whites compared to 1859 cases of blacks. Lawrence Beitlers ’ iconic photo‚ Lynching 1930‚ showed the lynching of two young black men accused of raping a teenage white girl. This photo is a good representation of how different blacks were treated during the early
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Frances Evans Barton DVD Notes Instructions: As you watch the Barton DVD‚ complete the Barton DVD Notes document. Provide at least 3 sentences for each section‚ except for the final section‚ which requires a complete‚ substantive paragraph. You will be required to submit the completed chart during Module/Week 4. “The philosophy of the _____school room______________ in one generation will be the philosophy of ___government_________________ of the next.” – Abraham Lincoln Early American
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Rosa McCauley (Parks) was born in Tuskegee‚ Alabama ‚ in 1913 february 4th. Rosa moved with her parents to her grandparents house in Pine Level. Rosa spent most of her childhood there. Her mother was a teacher‚ and her family adored education Rosa moves to Montgomery‚ Alabama when she was around 11years old and eventually attended High School there. She left school at 16 early in 11th grade to care for her sickly grandmother and soon after that her severely sick mom. In 1932 when she was 19 she married
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