Booker T Washington and W.E.B Du Bois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by black Americans at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. By using my knowledge of the documents and my knowledge of the period 1877-1915‚ I was able to asses the appropriateness of each of the strategies in the historical context in which it was developed. I came to the conclusion that Booker T Washington’s strategy was more appropriate for
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Wheatly´s poem “On being brought from Africa to America” consists of two central messages. First Wheatly´s gratitude for her Christian salvation that “mercy” embodied as the enslavement brought her not only to America‚ but‚ “thaught [her] benighted soul to understand.” Second there is a subtle message‚ a delicate revolutionary thought‚ dealing with the issue of race. “Remember‚ Christians‚ Negros‚ black as Cain” describes the importance to remember that those who do right according to Christian
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Cited: Chwarz‚ Christa A. B. (2003). "Langston Hughes: A true ’people ’s poet ’". In Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance‚ Indiana University Press Joyce‚ Joyce A. (2004). "A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes". In Steven C. Tracy (ed.)‚ Hughes and Twentieth-Century Genderracial
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implied reader and the actual reader. The implied reader is “assumed and created by the work itself” whereas‚ the actual reader brings his/her own experiences to the text and thus each reader takes away a different message from a text (MacMannus‚ para 1). Du Bois’s narrative‚ “A Mild Suggestion”‚ attempts to ensure a certain response‚ from the reader‚ by including a description of the passengers’ reactions to the colored man’s story‚ but to some degree‚ the effects on the reader vary depending on the experiences
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the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Eric Foner’s Reconstruction theory is correct in stating that‚ despite the northern Radical Republican’s best efforts‚ the southern whites were more so focused on recreating the past society instead of renovating a new society. It can be argued‚ however‚ that reconstruction was a success and the South made an attempt to change‚ but was burdened with the freedmen. The historian W.E.B. Du Bois states that Reconstruction was already complicated because of the war
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activist from the 1880’s; Ida B. Wells‚ one of the first African-American journalists and civil rights activists in the late 1800’s; Fannie Lou Hamer‚ organizer of the Mississippi’s Freedom Summer for the Student Council; Mary McLeod Bethune‚ founder of one of the first private schools in Florida for African-American girls and National adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Ella Baker‚ a civil rights activist who worked with Martin Luther King‚ Jr‚ W.E.B. Du Bois‚ and others. In her piece
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the U.S. government as an education superintendent in the Philippines. In 1912‚ Dr. Woodson then attended Harvard University‚ where he would then receive his doctorate’s degree; thus becoming the second African American to earn a Ph.D. after W.E.B. Du Bois. After schooling‚ Dr. Woodson then turns his direction towards the field of African American history in hopes that this subject was taught in schools and studied by scholars. Three years after receiving his doctorate’s Woodson helped find the Association
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citations of published works. Singh‚ Amritjit. The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers‚ 1923–1933. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press‚ 1976. Literary study of wide cross-section of black authors. Waldron‚ Edward E. Walter White and the Harlem Renaissance. Port Washington‚ N.Y.: Kennikat Press‚ 1978. A mono-graph on the influential civic leader ’s role during the period.
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The Langston Hughes Affect Langston Hughes was deemed the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race‚" a fitting title which the man who fueled the Harlem Renaissance deserved. But what if looking at Hughes within the narrow confines of the perspective that he was a "black poet" does not fully give him credit or fully explain his works? What if one actually stereotypes Hughes and his works by these over-general definitions that causes readers to look at his poetry expecting to see "blackness”? There are
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city within the borough of Manhattan. African American writers attempted to differentiate their work from that of what was known then as the “Harlem movement” or the “Negro renaissance” of the previous decade. Most remembered are Hughes‚ Hurston‚ Du bois‚ and Brown. Moreover‚ the movement of the 1920s had opened the doors of publishing houses and theatres. Even in the midst of the Depression‚ African American writing continued to appear. Black actors
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