He also died long before the invention of black women's studies. It is our responsibility as African American to keep pushing his positive vision and not to be afraid to go back to our communities and lead a helping hand. Only we can up lift our people and if we don’t do it simply won’t be done. We have to educate ourselves and keep moving
Black History Month is still relevant to African Americans The European Americans have forever discredited the Negro race of their history. They have hidden the fact that blacks are not truly primitive, but are great contributors to civilization. They have robbed them of all riches which belong to the black race. For a long time they have always said that the pharaohs and the people of Egypt were not black but rather white. Every student of history, of impartial mind, knows that the Negro once ruled the world, in times when the white men were savages and barbarians living in caves.
During this era, the civil rights movement was occurring and activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. himself influenced Americans to change justice, equality, and freedom for all African Americans by empowering the people through his words. This particular speech had a massive impact on Americans simply because of the segregation issues that were present
He had hoped that he could gather a momentum that would extend the support of black churches because black churches played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement. Meanwhile, SNCC brought together like-minded students. Ella Baker, also a director of SCLC, started this organization along with student activists after the highly publicized and successful Greensboro sit-in in 1961. The SNCC gathered many whites and blacks and traveled North to South to protest in support of the civil rights cause. The SNCC ideas of a very successful strategy and tactic were to organize sit-ins, boycotts, and other protests across the country to end segregation in public places such as restaurants, public transportation, and schools (Janken).
King led movements that reached many and was heard around the world. His actions were meant to eliminate hate and segregation, pass voting rights for African Americans, and unite a Nation with equality for everyone. Dr. King’s accomplishments are taught to people of all races worldwide. His fights against the Vietnam War lead to the “Poor Peoples Campaign” that was a multiracial coalition who were working for economic change. Conclusion William “Bill” Gates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were both young scholars who took risks and faced challenges to improve the way of life for everyone.
The Niagara Movement was one of the most influential movements in American history it had a huge impact in the African American community. The ideas that they encouraged pushed blacks to fight for true equality. Equality was just a word to so many African Americans for it had never been realized in their lives. Most African Americans just settled for the right to be a citizen but the Niagara movement encouraged the fighting for the same rights as those of a white man. Without this movement there would no telling where blacks would be today group that were primarily organized by W. E. B. Dubois .this was to get freedom and let blacks think for themselves and to have the faith and the mental toughness.
As a nation we have accepted that blacks, like whites, have the same role in society. Parents raise their children to see personality not color, which is what Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had taken great strides toward in their time. All it took was two men who wanted a brighter future for not only their children but all blacks. Malcolm X started life as an illiterate thief but returned to society as an admired orator in 1967. His story gave many African Americans hope.
We have to stop tearing the community down with drugs and gangs. We have to build our communities up with Black owned businesses, drug, and violent free areas. We have to make a safe, loving, and profitable place for our children to live. We are somebody and it is time for us to act like it. African Americans have created and built many things throughout the United States; while others took the credit.
Stating the facts of how African Americans were able to come together as one race and exhaust all attempts to be like all other Americans will provide a few answers as to how they worked to end segregation, discrimination, and isolation to obtain equality and civil rights. African Americans have endlessly put forth the
Each building that I passed while driving through the campus told a different story, each with historical significance which changed society. Driving through the campus I thought of all of the people that were counting on me to succeed and make the proud by lifting the “Veil of Ignorance” from American society holds, which is that African-Americans are inferior to others and that most young black men end up in prison. My first view of Tuskegee University was one that I was not only a new chapter in my life but would also determine the impact I will have in the world as I followed the footsteps of others who too walked through the gates of Tuskegee