...Afrocentric (culturally centered) understanding of the African Experience and also provide an historical foundation. Reading materials, videos, and an Afrocentric theoretical direction will assist students in formulating original and critical assessments of the issues surrounding the African experience. Text Books: Hine, Hine, & Harrold. African Americans: A Concise History Combined Volume. Course Packet: Blackboard • Students are required to download the Respondus software for online quizzes. GOALS & OBJECTIVES At the end of this course, you should be able to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the African world experience as a dynamic and unfolding process and be able to explain the following: The impact of slavery and colonization on African peoples and society; the political, economic and social movements for liberation of African people worldwide; and the dislocation and relocation of African people throughout the world. Students should also be able demonstrate a thorough knowledge of Africana culture and world view and explain the major principles and values of African worldview and...
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...domestic tasks, but was still the property of Mr. and Mrs. Wheatleys. She had privileges that other slaves seldom had, such as a lighted and heated room. Kenny Williams’ quotes friends of the family as saying that she “dined modestly apart from the rest of the company...where she could certainly expect neither to give nor receive offense.” Her role was unclear in the family and in society in general: “She inhabited a strange, ambiguous twilight zone between black society and white society, cut off from any normal contact with either, denied the sustenance of group identity.” It is clear that Phyllis’ Christian compassion of the Wheatley family was the nurturing womb in which Phillis’ rare gifts were cultivated. She came to know the Bible well; and three English poets – Milton, Pope and Gray – touched her deeply and exerted a strong...
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...Sep 12,2014 "Lynch Law" by Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Ida B. Wells, was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi.She lived with her father a carpenter and her mother a cook. A few months after Ida was born, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This made Ida and her family free, well as far as the laws go. Because is wasnt until the Civil War that actualy free.When Ida was sixteen years old both her parents died from Yellow Fever. So to keep her family together, Ida had to work as a teacher to take care of her brothers and sisters. A few years later, Ida moved to Memphis so that she could make more money teaching. She also took college courses and began to write and edit for a local journals.One day Ida was taking the train and the train the conductor told her she had to move from were se was sitting, and said that section was for white people only. Ida refused, but was obligated to leave her seat. So She sued and won $500.But the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the decision (http://www.biography.com/). After the insident with the train, Ida began to write about the racial injustices of the South.Then she began her own newspaper called the Free Speech, where she wrote about racial segregation and discrimination. In 1892, one of Ida's friends, was arrested for murderering a white man. Ida's friend was protecting his grocery store from being broken into. The white man got in anyway and distroyed the store. Ida friend was hoping that the judge...
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...specific groups and individuals faced throughout the time period. Beginning with Ida B. Wells in the 1890, and ending with the struggles the NAACP faced in the 1950’s, the ability to build support was often met with the challenges of racism and oppression. No other person exemplified this struggle more so then Ida B. Wells. Even though Ida enjoyed a substantial following through her writings of books, and speech making, she still faced threats to her and was even exiled and forced to leave the United States, and go to England. Although dealt this major setback in her forced move to England, Ida. B. did not become discouraged and continued her work in fighting for equality for blacks in the South. In her writing of the Red Record, and Southern Horrors, Ida was able to capture the horrific climate lynching in the South. Because of this work, Ida transformed many peoples perception of the South where before her work many believed that almost all types of oppression ended with the conclusion of the Civil War. As a result of this shift in public opinion, Ida began receiving substantial funding from not only whites in the North, but also from England; whom the South depended on heavily because of their trade relations. Through these efforts, Ida was responsible for starting groups such as the anti-lynching Bureau, and the NAACP. These organizations that were formed in large part because of Ida B. Wells can be judged as perhaps the biggest reason why lynching in...
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...society is different because of the person's work how you and others living today benefit from his or her efforts Ida B. Wells deserves a National Holiday to honor her civic and political participation for women’s suffrage and civil rights. Even though she was a teacher in her early life, at a young age, Ida B. Wells witnessed the lynchings of young African-Americans and wanted to make change. From there, she eventually became a journalist and became part-owner of the Memphis Free Speech. Wells was an active journalist that exposed the harshness of the lynchings that occurred, and was an active women’s rights suffrage supporter. Commonly in these times, she would’ve been considered a “muckraker”. Politically, she was an active citizen who wanted to tell the public what was going on in the African American culture, and because of this, she showed how being participating in government can affect what happens in the legislative and judicial branch. When Wells’ articles about lynching and about white women pursuing Black men got popular, it led to death threats against her and her newspaper offices. Eventually, one night, her newspaper office got burned down. She left Memphis and moved to New York, where she became part owner of The New York Age and continued to write articles exposing the crimes of lynching. When Ida B. Wells moved to New York, she...
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...Eddie A. Wigginton Jr. History H106 Dr. Robertson The American Negro The American Negro is a speech written by Booker T. Washington September 18, 1895. Washington was born April 5, 1856 and died November 14, 1915. He was known as an educator and a reformer for the black community. A majority of his professional career was spent living in Tuskegee Alabama, home of Tuskegee University (Encyclopedia Britannica para. 1). “Along with disenfranchisement, the 1890’s saw the widespread imposition of segregation in the south” (Foner p.646). At this period in time whites were having issues coinciding with blacks, rather it was in the workplace, theatre, or on a train. Since Reconstruction, matters have only got worse. The South at this point were still trying to find ways around federal laws like arresting unemployed blacks for minor crimes and placing them onto farms to work as punishment (Foner 641). The biographical detail I will point out is where he lived throughout his professional life, Tuskegee Alabama. Washington is a resident of the problematic and highly racist south. He goes on to explain that blacks are one third of the South’s population (Washington para. 1). They can either be productive, intelligent, hardworking workers or they could be the opposite. Washington genuinely cares about the outcomes of the South and its progression as a resident. This reason alone gives purpose to the whole speech. After the reading of the speech I believe Washington wanted...
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...Born a slave in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells. The Wells family, as well as the rest of the nation's slaves, were freed about six months after Ida's birth, thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation. However, living in Mississippi as African Americans, they faced racial prejudices and were restricted by discriminatory rules and practices. Wells-Barnett's father served on the first board of trustees for Rust College and made education a priority for his seven children. It was there that Wells-Barnett received her early schooling, but she had to drop out at the age of 16, when tragedy struck her family. Both of her parents and one of her siblings died in a yellow fever outbreak, leaving Wells-Barnett to care for her other siblings. Ever resourceful, she convinced a nearby country school administrator that she was 18, and landed a job as a teacher. On one fateful train ride from Memphis to Nashville, in May 1884, Wells-Barnett reached a personal turning point. Having bought a first-class train ticket to Nashville, she was outraged when the train crew ordered her to move to the car for African Americans, and refused on principle. She was then forcibly removed from the train. Wells-Barnett sued the railroad, winning a $500 settlement in a circuit court case. But that decision was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court. This injustice led Wells-Barnett to pick up a pen to write about issues of race and politics in the South...
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...short, fight against corruption, inefficiency, and monopolies. During this time, many social figures would become well known for their advocacy and effort in trying to make the nation better as a whole. One such figure is Ida B. Wells, an African American woman who was born in 1862 as a slave during the Civil War. Ida B. Wells was a muckraker, or reform-focused investigative journalist, who wrote continuously about the horrors of racism in the Jim...
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...innovator is a person who introduces new methods, ideas, or products. Ida B. Wells, born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, was a daughter of slaves. After the Civil War ended in 1865 and the 13th Amendment was added to the United States Constitution, just like many freed slaves, her family enthusiastically pursued education and business. Wells began teaching and soon found out that being legally equal to whites did not mean being treated equally, She learned this after she paid for a first class train ticket and sat in the car reserved for white ladies and was told to move back which she refused to do, and she was physically dragged from the train as the white passengers applauded. Wells became a journalist after that incident and led an anti-lynching crusade, as well as forming groups fighting for African-American justice. Ida B. Wells affected America culturally by informing the public about racial and women rights, psychologically by changing how individual’s thought about...
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...Miss Ida B. Wells is a short two-woman play, written by Endesha Ida Mae Holland about the life and times of the titular character, Ida B. Wells. Ida B. Wells was a civil rights activist and journalist who spent a good amount of her career fighting against the practice of lynching. The University of Louisville theater program put on a performance of this play. This paper will analyze the performance aspect of the play, as well as the interplay between the performances and the written script. I would like to break up my analysis of the show and its script into several discrete sections. Firstly, I will discuss the script and its set-up. Secondly, I will discuss the stylistic choices made by the UofL theater department. And lastly, I will discuss the interplay between these elements that is responsible for the final product....
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... there would be one African American woman who would voice her objections through writings and protests about the heinous actions. Despite the numerous efforts that sought to intimidate her, Ida B. Wells was an outspoken African American woman, who had a reputation for fearlessness and determination. She would become one of the most important African American women reformers of her day. Ida B. Wells was a woman dedicated to a cause, a cause to prevent hundreds of thousands of African Americans from being lynched. Ida B. Wells drew on many experiences throughout her life to aid in her crusade. It was her...
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...Ida B. Wells’ Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography, is one of the most inspiring stories throughout African American history. As an activist and civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells played an important role in establishing African American women’s ability to secure and use the right to vote. In the south, lynching, killing by mobs usually hanged, often involved gruesome injury as well as murder, were popular events in the post-Reconstruction.(pg.331). However, Ida B. Wells took matters into her own hands and contributed significantly to increase public awareness about the terrors of lynching, a movement that led to the classification of lynching as a federal crime. Born in 1862 in Mississippi, Ida B. Wells was orphaned at the age of sixteen by a yellow...
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...hands of the elected officials. Those officials have power over the government and everything in it. People have a huge influence and impact on the government, their decisions matter. The fewer people involved in pushing that influence, the less that the government will consider or represent the wishes of the people. I am writing to you to ask that we make a national holiday for Ida B. Wells. She deserves to have a day that is dedicated to her, a day that focuses on her contribution to Civil Rights. Wells was an active black female journalist that wrote about many subjects including those of segregation, women’s rights, and anti-lynching. She was very outspoken and wanted the world to hear what she had to say. She wanted to bring attention to the continued failure of civil rights. Her contribution, along with many others, helped to end segregation and restricted voting. When Wells took a train ride in May of 1884, from Memphis to Nashville, her motivations were made very clear. She had bought a first-class ticket for the ride and was furious when crew members ordered her to move to the car for African Americans. She refused and was forcibly removed from the train. Wells sued the railroad and won a $500 settlement in a circuit court case. The decision was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court and was then ordered to pay court costs. Wells felt that she needed to speak out and take leadership in guiding people to fight for what was right. Thus, beginning her journalism...
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...Horrors Paper The power for a single person to vastly affect the world around them is a rare and special talent. Ida B. Wells took it upon herself to positively influence the world she lived in. With every possible obstacle in her way she found a way to work through them and accomplish extraordinary achievements. As an African American equal rights activist in 1892, she spoke through her pen to send a strong message of egalitarianism to the world. During the post reconstructions era racial tensions reached their peak as lynching became more prominent. Lynching is a form of brutal capital punishment, usually as result of mob violence without the benefit of due process resulting in a hanging. Ida was a monumentally dominant figure in the anti-lynching campaign, as well as committees for anti-lynching that were formed to raise awareness of lynching not only as a problem in the United States but as a national issue. After the emancipation of the slaves, the whites felt as if they lost control over what was theirs and as a result used extreme force to express their dissatisfaction. In turn, the African Americans’ situation did not improve after the emancipation due to the fact that the whites no longer had a stake in their survival and still had a fierce hatred towards their race. Massive amounts of African Americans were lynched for little to no reason at all. Ida made a valiant effort to better the world through facts, reason, and logic; the power of one unlikely person was able...
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...African American Criminological Thought Book Report Sharon Francis University of Houston- Downtown This report is based upon the book African American Criminological Thought, written by Helen Taylor Greene, Shauan L Gabbion with forewords by Julius Debro. This book is published by the State University of New York and is copyrighted 2000 by Helen Taylor Greene, Shauan L Gabbion with forewords by Julius Debro. These authors are well educated and well known by many different individuals from other books that they have published. This report will show how several different scholars made and influenced the world despite of many events, these criminologist does fit into the history of events that have happened or is still happing in...
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