He had to enlist in the Army, but that did not change the young black man he was before all of that. Even after resigning, Sumner continued to contribute to psychology in order to pave the way for other African Americans. This critique notes his down falls and his up comings that made him who he was. KEY WORDS: African Americans, self-educated, PhD The “Father of Black Psychology”: Francis Cecil Sumner Sumner was born December 7, 1895 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas where he received his elementary education. His parents, David and Lillian Sumner, withdrew him out of school after elementary school so he could be self-educated just like his father (Talmadge, 2001).
Throughout all the obstacles he was faced with he was able to shed light on the situation and the treatment of African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. was born into a middle class family on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was Martin Luther King Sr. and his mother was Alberta Williams King. King parents where big disciplinarian that believed that this would teach their kids to be respectful and grateful for everything in life. King attended a segregated public school in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen and received his B.
Great Barrington was a predominantly white town with a small but long-established African American community. His mother Mary worked as a maid for local white families, despite being partially paralyzed in her hands and legs from a stroke (Miller, 2005). Du Bois’s father Alfred left home, ostensibly to look for work, but never returned home. Though life was difficult and money hard to come by, Du Bois was bright and articulate and he excelled in school. Most of his friends were sons of middle class white families in town.
He was 9 years old when the civil war ended. In brief, education was so important to him so Booker would go to school at 4:00 in the morning and go to work after school. He learned the virtues of cleanliness, frugality, and personnel from the white family he served. After being one of the four million blacks being emancipated, Booker, his family and new step-father, moved to Malden, West Virginia to start a new, safe, and hopefully happy life. During Booker’s life, many events involved with civil
At the age of fourteen, Mubilajeh's father passed away, which left his mother alone to raise six children. Mubilajeh was the oldest of the six children. After his father's death, Mubilajeh felt obligated as "man of the house" to financially support his family. These difficult times forced him to quit school, and he found a full-time job at a neighborhood library. Mubilajeh had always been an excellent student in school; he especially missed writing his creative stories.
When Selena was born her parents didn’t have a name for a girl so they began telling people it was a boy then some one told them the name Selena and the parents liked it so that’s what they named her. Selena began singing since the age of three, when she was nine her father founded there singing group. There family soon went bankrupt and go evicted from there home. They took all of there band equipment and left to Corpus Christi, Texas in an old bus, they preformed everywhere they could streets, weddings, and any other place. All of the time and effort eventually paid off when Selena turned fourteen and recorded her first album for a record company.
She would move heaven and earth to see to it that they get a college education, heaven forbid they ever have to struggle financially, like she did. When a Time-Share company called Dream Scheme, Inc. opened its corporate headquarters just a couple of miles down the road she applied for a job there, along with most of the other 1000 or so residents of the surrounding counties, most of whom had been unemployed, on government assistance, or working for minimum wage… all barely scraping by as she had been. She was hired along with 50 others including her best friend, to work in sales, and within a year, another 50 or so had been hired. She had worked very hard to prove herself and had just received a promotion and a raise -- $80,000 annually in her new position as Executive Assistant to the CEO and owner of the company... … That would be Norm, a charismatic leader, who despite the current economy had grown his company by leaps and bounds within the first year there, selling over 5000 time-shares throughout the US. Not only did Norm know how to sell; he knew how to teach and motivate people to sell which, in the natural order of things, all leads to big money… jobs, a major boon to the prior economical deathbed of this tiny beach town.
To understand why James Baldwin wrote the novel, Go Tell it on the Mountain, one must first know who the author is. James Baldwin was born on August 24th, 1924 in Harlem, New York. Baldwin was born to a single young mother, Emma Jones, who never told him the name of his biological father. About 3 years after his birth, his mother married David Baldwin, a factory worker as well as a local Baptist Minister in his community. The oldest of 9 children, Baldwin grew up in poverty, developing a troubled relationship with his strict, religious step-father.
Carrey formerly a good student started working eight-hour shifts after school and his grades were dropping. Eventually the family gave away the factory work and moved into a VW campervan. Carrey’s Great Debut Carrey made his debut at the age of 15 at Toronto’s Yuk Yuk’s club wearing a yellow suit his mother made for him. Unfortunately he bombed badly. He eventually dropped out of high school at 16 to become a full-time comedian.
In the year 1953 while he doing graduate work at a Boston graduate school, Martin Luther King Jr. married Corretta Scott. They raised four children together and their marriage also lasted until he died. In 1955 he finally did all his work and got his PHD. Martin Luther king was important to me, and still is, because he is a hard workingman. King was a well-known civil rights activist who tried and succeeded at getting rid of discrimination.