Essays on African American

The University of Tennessee has 28,000 students, in which 7. 59% of that total is African Americans. Of that 7. 59% of African Americans, only 998. 8 of them are African American males. Once these black males graduate, they will begin to search for the desired career that they have academically and socially prepared for…

In Aphra Behns Oroonoko, the author expresses her views on and passionately, which in the Seventeenth century was unsuited for a person , let alone a woman, to do. By establishing the story from a first person account there becomes a juxtaposition of both author and character. By doing so the reader is able to…

George Washington Carver was born in Diamond, Missouri around 1865 as a slave child on Moses and Susan’s farm. He was raised by his mother Mary, who took care of him despite his constant struggle with whooping cough. One cold night, a group of raiders or slave robbers abducted Mary and George from their home….

The Black Panther Party, founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California on October 15, 1966, ceased to exist by 1982 due to the crack cocaine epidemic that impacted the African American community. The dissolution of the Black Panther Organization was influenced by the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.), which participated in smuggling crack…

An individual who has the capability to aid others in their time of need, and give them strength to go on through life’s difficulties. To have a moral obligation to seek those who are struggling, and change their lives for the better. Such a person would be identified as a hero in today’s society. Heros…

George Washington Carver, an American educator and agricultural sciences innovator, was born near Diamond, Missouri to parents who were slaves. Nevertheless, he departed from his place of birth at the age of ten and subsequently relocated to Minneapolis, Kansas where he demonstrated determination and diligence in completing his high school education. Carver graduated from Iowa…

The people we surround ourselves with have an influence over our thoughts and our actions. They can build us up, tear us down, inspire or inhibit us. Sometimes, those we do not even know can say or do something that will have an impact on us for the rest of our lives, good or bad….

The culture, a bond through any item or event in which many people create a relationship from. The African American culture, is a tight knit community with their own personal advancements and social behaviors. I first was introduced to the definition and background of the African American culture through my dance teacher in the ninth…

American was synonymous to the word ‘segregation’ before the 1960s. The blacks (mainly the African Americans) were oppressed to the core. The condition would have been the same, had there not been historic personalities like Martin Luther; discrimination would have blackened the entire nation.   Discrimination prevailed in schools, job places, government offices and in…

Anti-miscegenation laws were strictly enforced to keep the races segregated so it is especially interesting to view Howard’s quite different viecrovwpoints here. “Day Breaks Over Simla” (undated) is a poem about an interracial love affair between what sounds like a young woman from India and a member of the British Consul stationed there. The beautiful…