Henry Clay died on June 29, 1852 in Washington D.C. Robert Young Hayne was born November 10, 1791 in South Carolina. He wasn’t able to pay for collage education so he studied law under a man by the name of Langdon Cheves. He served briefly in the militia during the war of 1812. After he returned he was elected the state
Haynes received his BA form Nashville, Tennessee’s, Fisk University in 1903. In 1904, Haynes earned a MA in Sociology from Yale University. While studying at the University of Chicago during the summers of 1906 and 1907, “Dr. Haynes became interested in social problems affecting black immigrants from the South.” (NASW Foundation, n.d., para. 2).
Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in Franklin County, Virginia. Booker was born into slavery in a hut. Washington being born out of slavery a self educated man until he would attend Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia. Booker T. Washington would see things different and bring an approach that would manipulate the masses of whites. Washington’s views on "racial progress" were that offered black acquiescence in disenfranchisement and social segregation if whites would back the idea of black progress in education, agriculture, and economics.
Length: 462 words (1.3 double-spaced pages) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - William Still and his Impact on Black History Working on farms to receiving whippings were just a few things all African Americans had to endure in the time of slavery. However there have been numerous people and events that have been influential in black history. One momentous event is when William Still escaped from slavery. William Still was born on October 7th, 1821, in Burlington County, New Jersey. Still’s original name as William Steel but his father changed it to protect his wife.
(USA, 1899-1975) Percy Julian developed the anti-glaucoma drug physostigmine. Dr. Julian was born in Montgomery, Alabama, but educational opportunities for African Americans were limited in the South at that time, so he received his undergraduate degree from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Julian worked his way through DePauw by digging ditches and waiting tables at a fraternity and in 1920, he graduated at the top of his class with a Phi Beta Kappa key. Eager to earn an advanced degree, his professors discouraged him, saying he would have great difficulty in pursuing his profession. After graduation, Julian joined the faculty of Nashville's historically black Fisk University.
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
He and his wife agreed to raise a black youth as one of their own. He also participated in the Underground Railroad and helped to establish an organization that worked to protect escaped slaves from slave catchers (League of Gileadites). In 1847 John met Frederick Douglass for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts. After the meeting, Douglass stated that, “Though a white gentleman, (Brown) is in sympathy a black man, and as deeply interested in our cause, as though his own soul had been pierced with the iron of slavery.” John Brown outlined his plan to Douglass to lead a war to free slaves. In 1849, John and his family moved to the black community of
James Mark Baldwin James Mark Baldwin was born in January, 12, 1861. Columbia, South Carolina.Baldwin was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina. His father, who was from Connecticut, was an abolitionist and was known to purchase slaves in order to free them. During the Civil War his father moved north, but the family remained in their home until the time of Sherman's Marsh. He was educated at Princenton.
His father, Joshua Dunbar, was a former slave who escaped to Canada and later served in the volunteer Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry during the American Civil War. His mother, the former Mrs. Matilda Murphy, was an ex-house slave from Lexington, Kentucky. Neither parent was formally educated, but both were self taught readers by the time Dunbar was born (Wiggins 11). Life during the Reconstruction Era was difficult for many African Americans, especially in the south. In the Alabama Review, Bertis English, Assistant Professor of History at Alabama State University, writes that, “numerous whites vented their frustrations by harassing, intimidating, or physically assaulting blacks” and that they “made it difficult for African Americans to buy land and homes, secure employment, or gather socially.” (4).
In 1831, Thomas Jennings became assistant secretary for the First Annual Convention of the People of Color in Philadelphia, PA. Thomas Jennings was a free man when he took out his patent, otherwise he might have had trouble obtaining the patent in his name. For instance, in 1857, a slave-owner named Oscar Stuart patented a "double cotton scraper" invented by his slave, Ned, arguing, "the master is the owner of the fruits of the labor of the slave both manual and intellectual". Initially, he U.S. patent office changed the patent laws in favor of Oscar Stuart, but in 1870, the U.S. government passed a patent law giving all American men, including African Americans, the rights to their inventions. Most slaves in the Southern states of the USA were denied education. The slave owners were afraid of slave rebellions occurring if slaves had access to texts based on enlightenment thinking, like Thomas Paine's "the Rights of Man".