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…

The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale on October 15, 1966, and was dissolved in 1982 due to a crack cocaine epidemic of the African American community. The Central Intelligence Agency (C. I. A. ) involvement with the smuggling of crack cocaine into poor communities with heavily…

Two great leaders of the African American community in the late 19th and early 20th century were W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. However they disagreed on strategies for African American social and economical progress. Their opposing philosophies can be found in much of todays discussion over how to end class and racial injustice,…

American educator and an outstanding innovator in the agricultural sciences. Carver was born of slave parents near Diamond, Missouri. He left the farm where he was born when he was about ten years old and eventually settled in Minneapolis, Kansas, where he worked his way through high school. Following his graduation in 1894 from Iowa…

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…

Booker T. WashingtonThe purpose for writing on Booker T. Washington is to focus on his educational contributions, and the different speeches he gave during and after the 19th century for African American and for the institution. Booker was born into slavery on a small tobacco plantation on April 5 1856. While in grade school he…

During the 1930’s African Americans faced segregation and discrimination in nearly every area of their lives. In addition to the poverty that the rest of the country also faced, the colored people had to follow strict rules, and were not treated well. We can see some examples of the discrimination in the book To Kill…

Racial discrimination is defined as an act that deals with considering a person differently based from that person’s race (Bell). Based on this definition, it does not seem something serious, but what happened during the 1920s in America aroused a new act against the right of people to equality. It was in 1920 that racial…

“If u can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, by the mean keep moving” said by Martin Luther king. Martin Luther king was a Baptist minister and social. Activist, he led the civil rights movement in the United States, from 1950 until his assassination in 1968.Martin…