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Abstract Francis Sumner is wrote down in history as the “Father of Black Psychology”. This critique observes the early education of Sumner that was the building blocks to his success. His education and contributions to early psychology is discussed in this critique to show that whatever one puts their mind to can be achieved through commitment and hard work. Being an African American was already hard, but being a male paralyzed his education for a year. He had to enlist in the Army, but that did not change the young black man he was before all of that.
Yes, at some point in his life he did allow African Americans to fight in the Union Army, but his actions proved that he wanted to free slaves and that he was not even close to being a racist. That’s why Abraham Lincoln is noted as being one of our nation’s greatest presidents. References Abraham Lincoln. (n.d.). Retrieved 11 1, 2012, from www.whitehouse.gov Faragher, J. M. (n.d.).
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Frederick Douglass also wrote a book "The Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass" which is also a great example of what slaves had to go through every day, confined to slavery. Booker didn't approve of the idea of slavery because he believed that everyone was equal. In the 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech which Booker T. Washington delivered, he told the President and gentlemen of the board of directors and citizens that "[they could] be sure in the future, as in the past, that [they] and [their] families will be surrounded by the most patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unresentful people that the world has seen." He believed that if America gave freedom to the slaves, that if the blacks and whites could work together and "cast down [their] bucket among [his] people, helping and encouraging them as
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York. Scribner, 2004. Print.
“Frederick Douglass was the most important African American leader and intellectual of the nineteenth century. He lived twenty years as a slave and nearly nine years as a fugitive slave” (Blight, 1). He planned on escaping from the plantation and starting a new life dedicated to the fight for equality. His early attempts failed, but finally in 1838, he managed to board a train that was headed to Maryland and out of the south, from there Douglass travelled to New York to the house of David Ruggles, who was also an anti-slavery activist. His autobiography focuses on his life as a salve and how these hardships shaped the man he became later on in his life.
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. Even though Baldwin’s father’s past was not revealed to us but it is easy to see that he had held the grudge toward the white people till the day he left this world. He was the first generation of freemen and his mother was born during slavery. He himself must have seen all the abusive treatments that the white people had done to his mother, to black slaves. It is understandable that he became such a man who always felt suspicious with white people – “Some of them could
President Obama’s A More Perfect Union speech that he delivered conveyed many messages about his beliefs concerning racism. He starts off explaining how the founders of our nation made the Constitution creating all men equal, but not actually practicing that idea. Obama is the son of a white woman and a Kenyan man, and there is much criticism about his supporters supporting him purely because of his race. His former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright recently spoke some very controversial words concerning the issue of racism, which created much unease. Obama goes on to say that his former pastor is a good man, that he just has lived and grew up in a time where segregation and the Jim Crow Laws were very much legal in the U.S.