Did you know that there was more to Harriet Tubman than the Underground Railroad? Harriet Tubman was a very goal-oriented and trustworthy person hired by the Union Army to accomplish the mission of freeing the slaves. In modern America, Harriet Tubman is viewed as a civil rights activist, but back then, she was viewed as a dangerous African American woman...
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Introduction Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered during the 1963 March on Washington, has become a touchstone for discussions about civil rights and racial equality in America. King's dream envisioned a society where individuals "will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" (King, 1963). This essay...
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Malcolm X Malcolm X once said, “If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary”. This quote describes one of the ideologies that he would preach about. This essay will go on to talk about his early childhood and jail experience like how his father died and when he converted to the Nation...
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The Second World War was unlike the First World War in that it was not seen as a European war. World War II was a clearly defined world war in that it was a war fought in two spheres and involved several countries across the globe. The first sphere was the European sphere where Germany and Italy tried to ravage...
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The United States was involved in the war in Vietnam, broken down along the lines of the administrations of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. The US entered the Vietnam War to stop the spread of communism and lost it by 1973. The origins of the failure were the fact that the United States was committed to an indigenous political leadership that...
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So how do you define a Civil War and what criteria do you have to fit to say that your country is at what? The most seen academic definition has two key criteria. ‘’The first says that the warring groups must be from the same country and fighting for control of the political center, control over a separatist state or...
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The Great Depression began during the year 1929, when the Canadian stock market crashed, wiping out hundreds of millions of dollars in the span of 4 days. The crash was the beginning of what led to a long decade of misery. There are numerous ways in which Canadian lives have been affected. Canada’s poverty and unemployment rate increased due to...
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Discrimination is a form of prejudice against different groups of people. One event in American history that illustrates discrimination and unfair treatment toward a certain group of people was the signing of Executive Order 9066 which affected the Japanese-Americans during World War II. On December 7, 1941, two years after the start of World War Ⅱ, there was an attack...
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For centuries, designers have been using visual art to express their feelings, inform others, and communicate with the masses to spread their message. Evidence of visual art can be traced back to the prehistoric Era, where pictographs were painted on cave walls to convey information to one another as seen in the Magura Cave in France depicting animals, humans, and...
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President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address, “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions”, on January 27, 1838, at a juncture during which our country was amidst immense national strife. America’s Founding Fathers who had established the country had passed, and in their absence, the once idealistic nation of America had transformed and fallen into a place of violence, rioting, and...
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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader” As stated by John Quincy Adams, “Leaders are the people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.” Leaders are the ones who do not order their sub-coordinates but work with them together to achieve the predetermined...
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The Harlem Renaissance is following racial injustice and in the play, it shows that. When Mr.Lindner showed up at the Youngers home he tried to convince them not to move into the new home because they would be the first “African American” family to move into that neighborhood. Although he tried to make his statement convincing and non-threatening, he still...
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Lincoln was a man that protected the Union and delivered the Emancipation Proclamation. Abe was born in meek surroundings, an insignificant log cabin with dirt floors in Hardin County, Kentucky. Rural farm life was backbreaking and tiring on the American frontiers during the early 1800s. Farm chores, hard work, and reading in the fireplace light extended adolescent Abe’s life until...
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Ayana Mathis once said, “If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That's nation-building.” Ayana Mathis is an African American author who has written a few books on the Great Migration, like...
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Home to Harlem sold eleven thousand copies in the first two weeks of its publication, fifty thousand during its first year, and was the first best-seller written by a black writer in America. Nevertheless, its depiction of lower-class Harlemites did appall some of the American black leaders, most notoriously W.E.B. Du Bois. In his 1928 Crisis review, he wrote of...
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The Great Gatsby is a commentary on life in the 1920s as it pertains to prohibition and the racial injustice facing African Americans. It provides several instances of the underground use of alcohol and the general feeling of superiority among white people. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Tom Buchanan to portray the way that many white people believed that African Americans...
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Currently, a persistent and highly structured racial hierarchy exists in the United States. Such a hierarchy has been central in the country’s political development, from the country’s founding, the longevity of African American slavery and Native American genocide, and the existence of Jim Crow laws and immigrant social segregation. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s fought against...
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The Harlem Renaissance was a time period when African Americans moved to Harlem, New York to be themselves and express their culture through literature, music stage, performance, and art. The Renaissance occurred from 1918 to the mid-1930s. In Mother to Son, the author depicts the struggle an African American mother faced with oppression and prejudice throughout her life. In the...
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Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg, was made not too long ago in 2012. Because this film was produced relatively recently, the production quality was obviously more advanced than other movies about the civil war. Using more developed technology, props, costumes, etc. the portrayal of the time period of the 1860s was very accurate. The sets did very much look like...
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Two Americas: one of economic opportunity, prosperity, and equality, and the other of the ugliness of discrimination and poverty. This was the ever-present theme in the atmosphere of the 1950s and 60s. Three weeks before his assassination, Martin Luther King prominently and correctly claimed that America has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened, the...
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Authenticity was an abstract development that zeroed in on normal characters' standard, regular day-to-day existence circumstances. Pragmatist stories, similar to that of Stephen Crane, were composed essentially and recounted accounts of basic individuals. it portrayed genuine individuals in genuine circumstances and Realism portrays the life and encounters of the normal American man. This development assisted Americans with adapting to the...
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The Significance of Duke Ellington Throughout the Harlem Renaissance, many individuals inspired and helped shape modern culture in countless ways. People such as Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Aaron Douglas, and Alain Locke all did amazing things for American culture in their own respected ways, but for me and many others Duke Ellington was the most influential of them all! From...
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A poet whose works inspired other Harlem Renaissance poets Nella Larsen composed a novel called Passing. Nella Larsen was an author during the Harlem Renaissance. The tale happens in Harlem in the 1920s. In the novel, there are two fundamental characters whose names are Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry. They were beloved companions growing up. Both Claire and Irene are...
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In attaining this objective, this paper aims to discuss an exact period of African American cultural development in America, the 'Harlem Renaissance', an important period that substantially influenced the evolution of African American theater. It examines some of the factors that have contributed to the comparatively slow progression of African American theater as a subgroup of African American literature. Finally,...
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In “Harlem Renaissance,” Paul Tough discusses the importance of educating families in Harlem and he suggests that teaching better parenting techniques will stop the cycle of poverty for the children who live there. Tough discusses a program called “Baby College.” The three main points discussed are language introduction, the importance of a child staying in school, and punishment and discipline....
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Modern contemporary artist Vanessa German reflects the idea that black people make themselves bright against the slaughter of our own names in a culture of a society that never visioned the Black Body into freedom, resources, or power. Just as Vanessa German empowers the black community by showing its resilience and voice, many artists during the Harlem Renaissance empowered the...
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Jazz started in the late nineteenth and mid twentieth hundreds, and was created from the establishment of blues and jazz. Jazz is viewed as 'America's old style music'. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has gotten perceived as a method for melodic articulation. Jazz is arranged by swing and blue notes, call and reaction vocals, polyrhythms, and spontaneous creation. Jazz...
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The Civil War was the bloodiest war in United States history; it was a long four years in which roughly 600,000 people died, which was two percent of the population. More people died during this war than in all the following wars combined: the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and...
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During the 1920s and 1930s Harlem, New York became the capital for African Americans, attracting talented artists from across the country. Musicians, dancers, and poets were among those in search of a newfound life. In an era that produced bootleggers, speakeasies, and bathtub gin, Harlem was also home to some of the most notable nightclubs of all time. These nightclubs...
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Introduction Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is often revered as one of the most significant figures in American history. His leadership during the tumultuous years of the Civil War not only preserved the Union but also paved the way for the abolition of slavery, thus reshaping the moral and political landscape of the nation. Lincoln's legacy...
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