Staples sees himself as a young educated black man staples states he was "one of the good ol boys” being only in a few fist fights. Staples grew up in Chester, Pennsylvania, Staples describes a childhood that was filled with gang violence and people getting murdered. Staple says many of his family or friends are dead or in prison. Staples has made some changes to make people feel a little more at ease when he is around. Staples whistles classical tunes and avoids walking at night time.
Frank Lucas was a country boy from North Carolina who came to New York in search for a better life of opportunity and success. He ended up working as a personal driver and bodyguard for one of Harlem’s most revered and feared drugs lords, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, the last great underworld bosses. Lucas highly looked up to Bumpy as a mentor, even going as far as comparing him to Martin Luther King, Jr. Bumpy had taught Lucas everything he knew, so that when he died of a stroke in 1968, Lucas was more than ready to take the reins. He steps into the void left by his mentor's death in 1968 by traveling to the jungles of Thailand and, with crucial help from an Army relative, transporting 100 kilos of pure heroin back to the U.S. via military planes.
Washington and learn more about the situation of African Americans. By the time Garvey arrived in America in 1916, Washington had died, but Garvey decided to travel around the country and observe African Americans and their struggle for equal rights. In his findings, Garvey recognized there were no programs and leaders were only in it for themselves as the poor black man was “groping in the dark”. He immediately started a New York division of UNIA. It grew quickly due to his ability to travel at his own expense and write and deliver speeches all over the country.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on 'The Beautiful Struggle' By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG In his first book, "The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood," Ta-Nehisi Coates chronicles his childhood in Baltimore where he was raised by a loving but complex father. Mr. Coates says that everything in his memoir is as accurate as he can remember it. But it isn't a typical narrative. Mr. Coates, a former staff writer at Time magazine, has larger ambitions. He attempts to show how a black family went about raising children in a troubled city where drugs and violence were common.
His young adult life consisted mostly of jail time. He lived a hard life, but he left behind a legacy that forever changed, the “Rap Game”. Tupac spent his childhood in the boroughs of New York City. Tupac’s family was very poor and they would live in the projects. Since Tupac’s mom was a Black Panther activist, he was always around Black Panther members and was raised by Black Panther rules.
He speaks of growing up without a sense of family, not to mention a sense of self. He describes horrendously brutal acts of whippings, beatings, and even murders. But he also describes freedom – an entitlement of the Declaration of Independence that this nation was built on, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Douglass speaks of the joy of working to earn wages that go to no one other than himself. He breaks free of the chains of slavery and joins the abolitionist movement as an eloquent speaker and writer.
He met Charles Luciano when they were just schoolboys. Luciano demanded protection money from Lansky, and when he refused to pay, the two boys fought. Impressed by Lansky's toughness, Luciano befriended the younger boy and the two remained lifelong friends. Lansky also met Bugsy Siegel when he was a teenager, and the three formed a powerful partnership. Lansky and Siegel formed the Bug and Meyer Mob, which became Murder, Inc. Lansky's primary order of business was money and gambling, and he had operations in Florida, Cuba and New Orleans.
His education meant a lot to him, so he put in lots of time writing books and learning to help others see the importance of it. The determination of one black man sparked a flam of never ending recognition of African America Pioneers. Known as the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson made a great impact on the African American history, culture and social responsibility. Raised in a home of former slaves, Cater knew first hand that you cannot free a slave until you free his mind. At the age of 20 he sought out to gain true knowledge and attain an education that cannot be taken.
The Ploughman: Now this was not the last time that the men maintained a visit, for only a few days later the churchman’s brother came to visit and leaving with the same results he soon gave up but not without rebuking their crude insults. The Summoner: As judgment came closer a man with leprosy came to remind them their time was running short and as of that day they must follow him to court to hear what they had to say. Despite their various attempts, the men soon discovered that their out come would be a cruel death like no other. The Manciple: With no true education, but quite a bit of reputation, a man came to prepare the lads for their final destination. He informed them of their rights, then left them to be, because now the men sat in pure
In the decades immediately following World War I, huge numbers of African Americans migrated to the industrial North from the economically depressed and agrarian South. In cities such as Chicago, Washington, DC, and New York City, the recently migrated sought and found (to some degree) new opportunities, both economic and artistic. African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become "The New Negro," a term coined in 1925 by sociologist and critic Alain LeRoy Locke in his influential book of the same name. Countee Cullen thought long and hard in his poems about his own and collective African-American identity. Some of his strongest poems question the benevolence of a Creator who has bestowed a race with such mixed blessings.