How did it contribute to a different perspective of African Americans during the 1920’s and so forth? I took this Question two different ways, one being how I now see African America after learning about the 1920’s and how do African America see themselves 1929’s and beyond . So I will answer both questions. I see African America continuing to found who they are, reinventing themselves to find self justification, since the 1920’s. The prejudices that continue to keep the Blacks as second class citizens, deeming them incapable of helping themselves and need someone to help them out , is diminished more and more everyday in the black community. They went from slavery to President in just a little over a 100 years. And now I will answer the second question. Back in the 1920’s, more and more Negros was beginning to challenge the ideas of the white man by finding their own culture using the arts. Loads of writers were exposing the danger in the south in order to help stop the killings going on down there. Ernest J. Gaines is a great example of that New Negro thinking, I will give you a Quote from “A Gathering of Old Men”: Won't it ever stop? I do all I can to stop it. Every day of my life, I do all I can to stop it. Won't it ever stop?" In Relating to now has it stop? According to the 1950’s it has not but today, it is a different type of killing.
The civil right movement was a time of change, a true DIY showcase, no longer were blacks terrify of speaking or fighting for what they believed in. Like in the 1920’s B lack s were tired of living their lives with unjust laws like Jim Crow and faulty segregation laws. There were several organizations fighting for justices at this time, the most famous ones were The NAACP, SNCC, CORE, SCLC and the Black Panther Movement. It was a civil struggle to end unnecessary cruelty. It ended around the 1970’s.
The murder of Emmett Till and yes I have heard of this tragic story"I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby."Mamie Till Bradley
SNCC was a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University. They refused to leave a white lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they were told they could not be served. They had started others to conduct sit-ins in at their colleges and around town in the South. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities. (About .com) The Philosophy of the group started out as non violet but seeing that that was not enough to get justice fast, the soon begin the
Martin Luther King live a life of comfort and stability, education was in the fore front of his mind, and at a young age attend college, which eluded him from not knowing firsthand the struggles of the poorer blacks. Making his tactic for racial equity similar to that of W.E.B Dubois, that education and words would be enough to change minds. Well because of the lack of violence and anger in King’s development Non- Violence seem best. Contrary, to King’s life Malcolm X’s Life was not a bed of roses, First Experiences were filled with violent, his father being a victim of a hate crime, murder. He had to always be crafty and his young life in Harlem was at the university but in the streets hustling, he did time. I mean he lived every poor man life. Seeing firsthand how blacks lives would be better if they were to completely be independent from the mental need for white approval, similar to the ideals of Marcus Garvey‘s back to Africa movement. Regardless the similarity is that both of them started in a family that was fighting for the racial equity. Both men had had a father trying to better the lives of blacks, making the both destined to follow in their fathers legacy.
Some not all of the goals of the civil right movement were accomplished but a lot of their advancement s were undermined by hidden prejudge laws and white privilege.
The civil right movement was a time of change, a true DIY showcase, no longer were blacks terrify of speaking or fighting for what they believed in. Like in the 1920’s B lack s were tired of living their lives with unjust laws like Jim Crow and faulty segregation laws. There were several organizations fighting for justices at this time, the most famous ones were The NAACP, SNCC, CORE, SCLC and the Black Panther Movement. It was a civil struggle to end unnecessary cruelty. It ended around the 1970’s.
The murder of Emmett Till and yes I have heard of this tragic story"I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby."Mamie Till Bradley
SNCC was a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University. They refused to leave a white lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they were told they could not be served. They had started others to conduct sit-ins in at their colleges and around town in the South. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities. (About .com) The Philosophy of the group started out as non violet but seeing that that was not enough to get justice fast, the soon begin the
Martin Luther King live a life of comfort and stability, education was in the fore front of his mind, and at a young age attend college, which eluded him from not knowing firsthand the struggles of the poorer blacks. Making his tactic for racial equity similar to that of W.E.B Dubois, that education and words would be enough to change minds. Well because of the lack of violence and anger in King’s development Non- Violence seem best. Contrary, to King’s life Malcolm X’s Life was not a bed of roses, First Experiences were filled with violent, his father being a victim of a hate crime, murder. He had to always be crafty and his young life in Harlem was at the university but in the streets hustling, he did time. I mean he lived every poor man life. Seeing firsthand how blacks lives would be better if they were to completely be independent from the mental need for white approval, similar to the ideals of Marcus Garvey‘s back to Africa movement. Regardless the similarity is that both of them started in a family that was fighting for the racial equity. Both men had had a father trying to better the lives of blacks, making the both destined to follow in their fathers legacy.
Some not all of the goals of the civil right movement were accomplished but a lot of their advancement s were undermined by hidden prejudge laws and white privilege.
I being an African America Will never have the “luxury” of having a single-minded thought. Bank on that.
Will that change in time?
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