The twelve pieces that I will talk about is all connected to the reading and videos that we have done for the weekly assignment. It will describe how each of the stories intersect the pieces that I have chosen which is basically the similarity of them. Some of the pieces could be from the online article that I have chosen to work with it. The weekly assignment that we have done so far is: feminism, union workers, Afrocentricity, black power, slavery, from plantation to ghetto, national association of colored women, reconstruction after math, 2nd reconstruction and the great depression. Some of the pieces that I will talk about which interact with these topics is ‘ain’t I women’, ‘A black nationalist manifesto’, and ‘the selling of slaves’. More of them will be included to describe the story. I would also talk about how the history have changed from before until now and how these stories have changed it.
One of the pieces that I chose ‘ain’t I a woman’ is similarly to black feminism. Black feminism is something that makes changes or make a challenge to change the society. Black feminism is also an activist who had challenged such inferiority. They have confidence and strengthening in the writing and in public careers. Where ain’t I woman is a speech that delivered extemporaneously. They both have their own position in relation to the experience of being women and can’t be grasped in terms of being black. Ain’t I a Woman also known as anti-slavery speaker. Her speech was delivered at the Women’s Convention and didn’t originally have a title. Where black feminism is something that raised a issues with practical appropriate for other women. Black women and ain’t I women both have experience with sexism, racism and how they had struggled both individually and to overcome almost overwhelming obstacles. Ain’t I a Woman represents to move black women beyond silence and to mainstream of feminist discourse which white women have tended to monopolize over the past decade. It was an argument that ignores black feminism to uninterested in feminist concerns. But black feminism has a good unique vision which develops strong bond of women. They have developed survival skills that will be useful in today's world at large. They have a special view of reality that come from being enclosures. Their moment has made things improve and they realized to begin those views as a form of power.
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Now I will talk about the Black power and one of the pieces that I think interact which is a black nation manifesto. Black power was a revolutionary that happened ages ago. It emphasized racial pride, economic and politics. Black power is a name for different associated ideologies aim at achieving and political slogan. Black power is something that replaced the nonviolent movement which was powerful. They made an organization to puts frustration of the black population and police brutality, then by that time, many people joined the movement of black power to arm themselves and prepare for the struggle for freedom. Where black nation manifesto has the similarities, which was launched in 1967. In their organization, it was claimed that they had recruited enough member in London during the impact in Britain. Where black power got a foothold in Britain. Black power and the black nation manifesto they formed in team together and they worked with the U.S black panther party in 1967. Together they protested outside the U.S embassy in support of the U.S black panther funder, who was on trial for murder in New Haven, Connecticut. They also made a slogan together, which was ‘you can kill a revolutionary but not a revolution’. Which was powerful enough to make a movement and make a change in people.
The national association of colored women and whenever the colored man's is elevated, I think they are alike each other in different ways. Their motto is strong enough to empower something. The national colored women have the motto ‘lifting as we climb’ which demonstrate an ignorant and suspicious is their aim and interest are identical with those of all good aspiring women. Where colored man motto was ‘I will sink or swim with my race.’ Which moderate that he will fight for his rights. They both made a positive change in the society and made a change in the African American community by improving the lives of impoverished African American. They both fought their right, which was like violence and race. This is also interacting with Idea B and Julia Anna where they fight against black, poor school and the failure of black people to fight for their rights. Despite all the danger they encourage the black residents. Everything has changed from how it was before, it’s all because they each have fought for their rights.
Everything connects with each piece and different point of view. Also, I want talk about the pieces that interact with slavery. Slavery abolition and ‘the selling of slave’, they are similar to each story. In both stories, black and white wages a biracial assault against slavery. Abolitionists focus attention on slavery and made it difficult to ignore. They highlighted that had threatened to destroy the unity of the nation. Slavery has existed, in one form through recorded human history. They have been sold and traded to different countries, it was a harsh moment where there wasn’t any sympathy toward them. They have been affected with many kinds of diseases, but no one was willing to save them. In the 19th century, many abolitionists united to form numerous antislavery societies. These groups sent petitions with thousands of signatures to congress, conference and gave innumerable speeches for their cause. Some individual abolitionist sometimes advocated violent means for bringing slavery to an end. Sometime white and black worked together to save slavery, while many other white abolitionists focus only on slavery, black Americans tended to couple anti-slavery activities with demand for racial equality and justice. They tired their best to overcome this slavery and in today’s life nothing that happen anymore.
The story of the ‘plantation to ghetto’ and ‘black soldier return from WWII’ is really much alike to each part. They both talk about the black history, which has generally been grounded between two historic struggles, one of them is civil and another one is modern civil right moments. The black soldier was treated very differently than how they should have been treated. African American participated in every war fought by the United states. As the other people of the country watched World War I across the European, African American citizens saw an opportunity to win the respect of their white neighbors. Still they were considered second-class citizens. While it’s still discriminatory, the army was far more progressive in race relations than the other branches of the military. In both stories they have been fighting for changes, the historical period of the civil rights movement brought tremendous changes to the African American community. The growing social and economic power of black working class began to impact the American political system in today’s society.
Now I will focus on talking about the reconstruction era and restoring the south to the union. Also, the African American workers, which was involved in the era. The reconstruction era in American history, which was from 1863 to 1877. There was changes in ended slavery and making the newly freed slaves’ citizen with civil rights. In reconstruction era, there were some visions of the civil war memory that appeared during the reconstruction: the reconciliations vision, the white supremacist and equality for African American. So many of the southern united states were destroyed during the reconstruction era. Plantations and farms were burned down, and their crops were destroyed. The south needed to be rebuilt. To rebuild, it lasted 14 years. Also, African American abolition of slavery was changed due in time as today, but they are still filled with hardship. African American worked with wages no more than one dollar. It was harder in the reconstruction era than now it improves in a better way.
The reconstruction era is also same similarities to the 2nd reconstruction era. The 2nd reconstruction is a little bit different that made a change. On the second reconstruction act it was made two changes to the first. It is that every voter recites the registration oath promising them support and their obedience to the law. The first reconstruction act left the states in confusion while the second act answer this problem. Second reconstruction act also warned first remonstration act in the method of counting votes. It was an era that always puts up a challenge to teach. At first, it was a time of tremendous political complexity and far reaching consequences. They are often an obstacle to a deeper understanding of the period. It was a movement that occurs after the end of world war II. The nation began to correct civil and human rights abuses. The 2nd reconstruction era created something positive in many ways. They also made a newly freed slaves citizens and civil right moment guaranteed by the three new constitutional amendments. They were the era that the attempt of the federal government of the united states to resolve the issues of the American Civil war.
Another piece that I want to talk about which connect with Afrocentricity is race and Pan African identity. Afrocentricity is a method that considers no phenomena can be apprehended adequately without locating it first. Afrocentricity is a paradigm based on the idea that African people should reassert an agency in order to achieve sanity. And pan African is something that did came at the beginning of the 20th century, which they both are similar to each other. One of the major political traditions was largely created by black people at that time. Pan Africanism is a movement that aim of unifying and uplifting the African nation and African community. They both are powerful, which has cultural, political aspects and historical evolution. Afrocentricity also becomes a revolutionary idea because its study idea, event and political. Both stories are politically involved to change and make things improve.
Now I will talk about one of the pieces ‘union workers’ that interact with African American workers. Union worker is an organized group of workers who unite to make a decision about the condition after affecting their work. It brings economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. The union worker played an important role for independence. It also became part of American culture. Back into civil movement, some of the workers like African American were treated differently, they had low wages than anything else. It was tough for them when one was standing up for them. African American is known to have participated in labor action. They also played a dominant role. They created an African American labor movement which helps union workers to get better wages and more improvement. After their hardship and with low wages, they had to step up and make things change, it was a movement that changed many other things by the union workers
Resistance, Reform, and Renewal in the Black Experience is another story where African Americans have created themselves. They constructed their cultural identity in a country that denied them citizenship and human dignity. African American people were the foundations for the construction of a black American society that was achieved its specific interests. Similarly, the Black Power movement that arose when the weakness become evident. Also, Floyd McKissick, in his endorsement of black power, who have established the black capitalist venture of Soul City. Also, on the other hand, Black Panthers embraced a Marxist analysis of capitalism. They base its ideology on a concrete analysis of concrete conditions. African American fought for their Black freedom. There is also a museum about the African American that portrays the story of them. It’s a museum about history and culture. Their many of the arts was collected from the African American resistance across the history of American. Resistance has had real consequences whenever the political perspective from which African American struggle for freedom.
The great depression is another story which interact with black Workers in the Great Depression. In the great depression some African Americans were successful in their lands and farms, this also became difficult for them to deal with because of the economic crisis which was began in the rural south. Many of the African American people moved out because of the oppressive economic conditions. As the price of wages fell, many of the black began to migrate to the northeast and midwestern states. Many of the jobs disappeared and the worker was struggling with the great depression. African American families were the most people that were in a bad situation without any support. At this time, unemployment rate for white was 31% where the unemployment rate for African American people were 50%. While the Black people came to north for a job, the job that they were supposed to get were given to white people. As a result, so many poor farmers were evicted from their land and federal government did little to intervene. It was an awful moment for African American that the Agriculture administration paid farmers to destroy their crops in order to increase market prices. African American people always face hardship than anything in this world.
These whole stories intersect with different things in different ways. They whole have similarities where they fight for the changes and for the right. These stories tell us how history was back then with a lot of hardship and how it changed rapidly after keep fighting. It was hard back in old age to fight something when people barely get support. Most of them were poor people who always face difficulties, there was no equalities or fair concern. African American where the most people where they get in trouble, there was an ugly discrimination between each person. If they didn’t step forward to fight for their rights, then today would have been something where people see them differently than anything else. As I mentioned, African American workers are always left out with low wages and barely get any job, it was really complicated for them. Because of their hardship and fighting for their own equality everything has changed today. History have changed so much than before, so for the African American community. One of the examples could be that, in the old days when African Americans were a slave where people sell them and make them do all the work, but nowadays it’s not the same anymore, it’s changed everything and into well improvement. There still racism exists, but it happens sometime, when things like that occur people step up and help them. Every story has changed the social movement into something better. Everyone gets treated in the same way with better rights. Throughout the history, it keeps changing and will change more as long as we keep fighting for something good.
In conclusion, the whole pieces of the story have changed the whole society. Everything is improved so much better. Everyone has fair equality and judgment. Black worker wages are also something that changed which don’t affect them or anyone anymore. In today’s real world, African American is doing much better than anything else as far as I noticed. Nothing would have been changed without fighting for their rights. Each of the pieces of the story changed something that society would never forget, they are the history that would always stay in life. The progress of African American is so inspirational, they have come so far. It's also amaze me how strong people can be. In today's real life, most of the African American people consider themselves as middle class member. It’s also beautiful to see everyone lives together. Their organization was the most amazing thing to me that I feel like it helps them to get over a difficult situation. Life is amazing and it can always change, we all just have to fight for justice and rights, that’s the movement of society.
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