He had to enlist in the Army, but that did not change the young black man he was before all of that. Even after resigning, Sumner continued to contribute to psychology in order to pave the way for other African Americans. This critique notes his down falls and his up comings that made him who he was. KEY WORDS: African Americans, self-educated, PhD The “Father of Black Psychology”: Francis Cecil Sumner Sumner was born December 7, 1895 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas where he received his elementary education. His parents, David and Lillian Sumner, withdrew him out of school after elementary school so he could be self-educated just like his father (Talmadge, 2001).
Malcolm X as an Activist During the 1960’s, there was one man who really stood out about expressing the hardships of being an African American. This man was Malcolm X. Ultimately, Malcolm X believed to the fullest extent, that African American’s could not reach their full potential in society because of white racism, and the historical events leading from slavery in the United States. However, due to the events that happened in his childhood, Malcolm X tries to reverse this feeling of victimization throughout his life and tries to become a positive activist for all African Americans. Throughout his life and up until the day he dies, Malcolm X tries to pursue this ultimate goal of seeing white racism in a positive light and making something good come out of the events that happened in his life.
Now, let’s look at what a short summary of Gates’ essay would look like: In the essay “What’s in a Name,” Henry Louis Gates expresses his viewpoint on the discrimination that his parents, particularly his father, experienced during his childhood in the South. The specific example that Gates refers to involves an incident where a shopkeeper who was friendly with his father referred to him as “George,” a name that Gates now realizes was a popular way of referring to African Americans in those times. Perhaps because his father made good money and the shopkeeper felt uneasy about his status, or simply because of the color of his skin, Gates’ father had to accept this discrimination and there was nothing he could do about it. As his mother told young Gates, “It was one of those things” (p. 6). (A summary should be Complete, Accurate, Brief, Independent, and Neutral
“Learning to Read” by Malcolm X Summary From an Articulate Street Hustler to one of the most well spoken black men in his era, Malcolm X explains how he became motivated to begin his studies in the essay, “Learning to Read”. He had spent the majority of his twenties in Norfolk Prison Colony School, where he began his initial studies, “Many who today hear me somewhere in prison, or on television, or those who read something I’ve said, will think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade.” Before being confined to Norfolk Prison, his studies hadn’t progressed much further than the eighth grade. Him not knowing how to read and write created immense struggles, which led to his motivations of learning to read and write. His prison studies
Atticus Finch's Influence on Maycomb To Kill a Mockingbird is a heroic tale about two children, Scout and Jem; their father; and the events that occurred in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. In the novel, Atticus, the children's father, makes a decision to defend a black man in court that affects the racially-biased town's view of him and his family, for better and for worse. Though the decision was seemingly "tough", he knew exactly what he had to do in the situation, and he did that. The town may have ridiculed him but the townspeople knew that he did what he had to do. He also plays a part in affecting the town's morals throughout the novel by being modest, standing up for what he believes in, and seeing things all the way through.
Douglass also draws attention to the false system of values created by slavery, in which allegiance to the slave master is far stronger than an allegiance to other slaves. When he is seven or eight years old, Douglass is sent to Baltimore to live with the Auld family and care for their son, Thomas. Mrs. Auld gives Douglass reading lessons until her husband intervene; Douglass continues his lessons by trading bread for lessons with poor neighborhood white boys and by using Thomas' books. Soon, Douglass discovers abolitionist movements in the North, including those by Irish Catholics. Several years later, as a result of his original owner's death, Douglass finds himself being lent to a poor farmer with a reputation for "breaking" slaves.
Invisible Reject In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the black narrator struggles to achieve visibility and find identity in a white society. Ultimately, the narrator finds that the only way he can realize his identity is not by placing himself within white institutions but in fact reflecting on his perpetual rejection from them. At the start of the novel, he strived to win respect by being obedient and getting good grades in school in order to go to college. However, despite receiving a scholarship to attend college, he failed to break through the social constraints imposed upon him as a black man in a white-dominated society. Even upon receiving his scholarship, gifted black students were forced to participate in the Battle Royale, a spectacle of black de-humanization.
So they just kept holding the thought that black people were not deserved to be treated equally. Baldwin and his father, the first and second generation of freemen, was a typical example of discrimination in this time. Throughout this essay, Baldwin has explained his strained relationship with his father because of all the anger and paranoia his father expressed during his childhood. But also at the same time, he regretted that he did not get to know him better when he was alive since the moment Baldwin realized that his father was only trying to protect him from racism. By going through all the experiences that Baldwin and his father had earned by their skin color, he himself have learnt about what position he and Negroes in general were placed in by the society in that time and how he has figured a way out.
“The tragedy is not things that are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended together.” Alan Paton wrote this novel, Cry the Beloved Country during his tenure as the principal at Diepkloof Reformatory for delinquent African Boys.Alan Paton wrote his important novel, Cry the Beloved Country, while apartheid was still in place in South Africa. On Kumulo’s first journey, he is determined to find his son. As the journey goes on we see Kumulo’s weaknesses show. His journey begins when he receives a letter from a fellow minister summoning him to Johannesburg.
I was scared death that if I did fail I would be a disappointment to him, but not just to him, but to my myself or even disgrace to the families name, see the place that I worked was called Thrasher’s arts studio. It was around my sophomore year and I was asked to help my dad. I worked the cash register, and was his secretary and if a new painting came out I got to pack gage the print. I did whatever I was told. As I got older I got to do a little more things like drive my dad around, and help deliver my grandpas paintings.