1. Negritude
The school didn't just teach, it offered a variety of clubs and sports to allow the students to express their creative and athletic outlets. ... Where people could come together and not only share their love for a fellow God and express their faith, but also be able to socialize with neighbors and friends, share opinions on the day's current events. ... Roosevelt's precedency he enacted a policy aimed at African Americans to ease the pressures of racial separatism. ...
We younger negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame....We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves."... Some common themes and aims that were used in the writings included alienation, marginality, the use of folk material, the use of the blues tradition, the problems of writing for an elite audience, advancement of the black race, and exploration of self-identity. ...
Their contrasting views and some of the words, phrases, and facts they use in their speeches arouse different emotions, such as anger and understanding at times from the audiences they are aimed at. ... "(19) In this he expresses what has been called the "do or die" attitude and attempts to lead his followers into the same state of mind. ...
The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year, express a new spirit of protest amongst Southern blacks. ... In the early 1960s King led SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference an organization of black churches and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation.) in a series of protest campaigns that gained national attention. ...
The black codes were aimed at stopping the movement of equality in the "de jure" sense, demonstrated by the vagrancy laws which saw homeless unemployed black Americans arrested and fined. ... Whilst the Black Codes stopped African-Americans gaining effective equality the Freedmen's Bureau aimed at generating effective equality in both the "de jure" and "de facto" sense. ...
Some people are born to be certain things in life. Some are born to be doctors, some are born to be lawyers, some perhaps engineers or teachers. Some altogether different like Martin Luther King Jr. are born to be revolutionary leaders. Destined to fill the void of support for a race of people, who ...
