HBCU’s Role in Educating African American Students For almost two hundred years, Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs have played a pivotal role in the education of African-American people, and Negro people internationally. These schools have provided the majority of black college graduates at the Graduate and Post-Graduate level; schools such as Hampton University, Morehouse University, Spellman University and Howard University are four universities at the forefront of the advanced education of blacks. For some time there has been a discussion on whether or not these institutes should remain in existence or if they are just another form of racism. There were also concerning the quality of education provided at these institutions. In my opinion, from the evidence provided in our own world today, HBCUs are very important and significant in the education of black people throughout the nation, and are essential to our society.
African-American Literature 121 Response Paper #2 October 12, 2011 Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois I will show the different views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois on racial progress and education. Both men had great ideas about both but totally different views as to how they felt or seen a resolution to the problem of racial progress and education. Booker T. Washington and W.E. B. Dubois wanted freedom from oppression for African Americans, but their approach towards this goal would create a great deal of conflict between the two. Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in Franklin County, Virginia.
Karenga says that us as Black people need to acquire this knowledge not just for knowledge sake, but for human sake. The knowledge African Americans could gain through Black Studies would be the key to taking all of this oppression we have endured for hundreds of years in America and turning it into success and prosperity for the community. The knowledge we learn must be taken back to the communities and shared with the masses that need it most. According to Karenga, and history, we are the fathers and mothers of humanity and human civilization and by understanding Black Studies, we are contributing to the full understanding of humanity itself. In an
There were many other civil right groups such as SNCC, who helped organise The Sit-ins of 1960; NAACP, who also aided The Montgomery Bus Boycott; and The Black Panthers, a more Militant group whose main cause was to empower Black people. It is my opinion that whilst Martin Luther King played a significant part in the black civil rights campaign, the other Civil Rights groups should not be ignored for the part they played. Martin Luther King was a key figurehead in the advancement of black Americans. He was known around the World for taking part in several Civil Rights campaigns. He was a highly intelligent man, coming from a higher-class background.
All of these sources touch base on the March on Washington whether it is from Bayard’s Point of view or just explaining the events that took place and how Bayard was involved. For my paper, I am looking at the significance of Bayard and the how he has changed the civil rights movement, with the sources that I have accumulated I think that I will be able to construct a well-argued paper. Due to the 1896 Supreme Court Case Plessey v. Ferguson, which promoted segregation by saying that separate schools were equal, African Americans, particularly in the South lived in a two class, Jim Crow society based on race. Even though
Gloria Naylor and Julie Bosman both went to college and participated, if not graduated with a knowledge of literacy and understanding of language and its effects. Both show that people have the right to say or print what they want. Unfortunately they both also show how some people may, or may not, take offense to these thoughts and opinions. Both pieces are talking about issues that bring up differences in ideas within communities and they each originate over a controversy over the African American community. Though in Naylor’s case it is when she was a young child, and in Bosman’s she was and undergraduate in college, both authors use personal life experiences.
Its main objective was to try an end the political segregation of African Americans in the Deep South. Volunteers from the three organizations decided to concentrate its efforts in Mississippi. It was the first widespread entrance of young elite whites from the north, into the movement. Whites, of course, have long been involved in the civil rights struggle. SNCC needed volunteers who could support themselves for the summer because SNCC had very little financing.
The final exam will discuss the struggles African Americans encounter for civil rights during the 1950s thru 1980s. The attitude Malcolm X had in the civil rights and the issues that others had with Malcolm X philosophy in achieve equal rights for African Americans. Also, there will be great details in Martin Luther King Jr. and others philosophy in achieving equal rights for African Americans. The overall outcome of the civil rights movement in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the death of the most important Black leaders of this country. To pin point the beginning of the civil rights movement depends on who and what is being discussed.
“Critical thinking is the ability to think for ones self and to reliably and responsibly make the decisions that effect ones life” (Garner 64) “Critical thinking is an important component of all colleges. It is a part of the education process and is increasingly significant as student’s progress through university to graduate education, although there is debate among educators about its precise meaning and scope” (Ritola 21). College is about thinking, and it will help one understand how to become a critical thinker which is, someone who doesn’t believe everything he or she hears or reads but instead looks for evidence before forming an opinion. Critical thinking allows one to think outside the box and develop ones own ideas and solutions. “Developing critical thinking skills will empower one to make sound decisions throughout ones life” (Garner 3).
“No challenge has been more daunting than that of improving the academic achievement of African American students” said Gloria Ladson-Billings (1994) in one of her most influential works on pedagogy titled, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children (p. 9). Her insight on what is now culturally relevant teaching has sparked a revolution in urban education’s form and curriculum, empowering students intellectually, socially, and politically. One African American sociologist who also fought for the civil rights and education of Black children was W.E.B. Du Bois, who, when describing his first experiences as an educator in the segregated schools of the South, observed that his students “found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them, and it answered with little, and yet it ridiculed their offering” (2008, p. 58). Du Bois’ students’ realization that little is expected of them and little is welcomed is a result of a lack of empowerment; it is a byproduct of the absence of culturally relevant teaching, which in the end is a damaging thing for children.