With that being said, both styles have their own sounds and meanings (Mississippi Blues Commission). And some say that they are “two sides of the same coin” (qtd. in Mississippi Blues
Nearly thirty years later, former CEO of Manico, Inc., Jack Kahl “officially” changed the name to Duck Tape® by commercializing it and giving it personality. Today, duct tape is offered in over twenty different colors and patterns. Besides its World War II association, duct tape was used to help one of the most “successful failures” in history. When Apollo 13 was crippled by an explosion only two days after the launch, astronauts were left with a limited oxygen supply that was slowly running out. Of course, they fixed it with duct tape.
Du Bois played a prominent part in the creation of the NAACP and became the association's director of research and editor of its magazine, The Crisis. Du Bois graduated from Fisk University, a black institution at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1888. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in
Malcolm X with his persuasive charismatic style of deliverance decided to visit Africa to link its blacks with their other black brothers in the United States. He helped formed “Organization of Africa Unity” which was an international political organization promoting the interest of black people and fighting against white oppression (“Black
But unfortunely he was not a healthy kid during his childhood. When he was 21 years old in 1816, James had gotten accepted to the University of North Carolina as a sophomore. He was planning to make up for lost time back when he was too distracted about his gallstones to work as hard as he could as a child. By the time of 1818, he had graduated college at the age of 23 years old with honors and he had decided to enter the exciting world of politics. Soon after his graduation, he left for Nashville to study law with the Nashville lawyer, Felix Grundy.
The Traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.” Even though African American schools were not known for their quality he was able to obtain admission to Atlanta University. After graduating from college in 1916 Walter White moved on to work for an insurance company for 2 years. After that time he joined the staff of the NAACP (National
Charles Drew: Doctor, Surgeon (1904-1950) Charles Drew was a successful surgeon, teacher, and researcher. He was responsible for the founding of two of the world's largest blood banks. Because of his research into the storage and shipment of blood plasma, he is credited with saving the lives of hundreds during World War II. He was director of the first American Red Cross effort to collect and bank blood on a large scale. In 1942, a year after he was made a diplomat of surgery by the American Board of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University, he became the first African American surgeon to serve as an examiner on the board.
He idolizes, Dr. Bledsoe, the president of the Negro College. He aspires to emulate Dr. Bledsoe at the conclusion of his educational journey. That journey is cut short and the Invisible Man leaves not only the college, but the South to continue his search in finding his identity; his identity being his ideal place in society as a black man, but because it he is a black man it is hard to communicate with other people because they will not give him the time of day, thus hinders his search
Under the pressure of activist groups and President Franklin Roosevelt, the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC), who had not allowed black Americans entrance into its academy, finally gave in and allowed blacks to enroll for the flight program. They did this grudgingly though, fearing the programs would fail. The Army’s decisions about blacks in its ranks were still influenced by a 1925 Army War College report called The Use of Negro Manpower in War. The 67-page report was full of cruel and untrue generalizations about the behavior of black men during wartime and the black race in general (1). The stage was set in Tuskegee Alabama, and the Tuskegee Airmen were born.
He was born in Nebraska but was mostly raised in Michigan and although King grew up in a community with a strong African American presence, Malcolm grew up in a community where little to none of that background. As a child, he lost his father at a young age and his mother was deemed mental and no longer fit to raise Malcolm. After being sent to a foster home, he was raised by white parents and attended white schools. However his dream to become a lawyer was ruined when a teacher heard his education plans and simply laughed. Feeling defeated, and probably angry Malcolm’s intentions to further his education were tarnished.