Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was a great influence for the black community. The efforts he made to become such a wonderful leader were incredible. Booker T. Washington was a man that started up from scratch. He grew up as a Black slave‚ who did not have many choices in life. He was born on April 5‚ 1856 in Virginia and he had a white father and a black mother. When he was still a child he went to work in a coal mine after the Emancipation Proclamation. When Booker was seventeen he
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contributed to the article about John Brown were W.E.B. Du Bois‚ Robert Penn Warren‚ and David S. Reynolds. Their respected backgrounds impacted their views of Brown and his actions. W.E.B. Du Bois’s background was greatly respected by Brown’s article. W.E.B. believed that because of John Brown’s actions over slavery‚ it gave everyone his or her right to freedom. According to Du Bois‚ all men are equal and are no less than one another. Du Bois stated that “slavery is wrong” so we must “kill it”. His
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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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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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Short Answer Questions: 1. The progressives believed that growth and progress could not continue to occur recklessly‚ as they had in late nineteenth century. The “natural laws” of the marketplace ‚ and the doctrines of laissez faire and Social Darwinism that celebrated those laws‚ were not sufficient to create the order‚ stability‚ and justice their growing society required. Direct‚ purposeful human intervention in social and economic affairs was essential to ordering and bettering society
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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 Enlightenment in 18th and 19th century Europe was a movement focused on the primary source of authority and legitimacy. The work of thinkers Aguste Comte‚ Karl Marx‚ George Simmel‚ Hebert Spencer‚ Emile Durkheim‚ and Max Weber were all major influencers of the Enlightenment in the 18th and 19th century on the development of sociological theory. Aguste Comte is the French sociologist who founded sociology in 1836. The Enlightenment was a time period of development and change in philosophical
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