James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902. ... She educated him about Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and introduced him to the writings of William Du Bois at an early age. ... James Presley notes "one summer in Chicago when he was a teen-ager Langston Hughes felt the American Dream explode in his face; a gang of white youths beat him up so badly that he went home with blacked eyes and a swollen jaw. ... That night as he tended his injuries young Hughes must have mused disturbed thoughts about fulfillment of his American dream of freedom, justice, and opportu...

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Some of the most popular artist was Palmer Hayden, James Van Der Zee, Lois Mailou Jones, and William H. ... James Van Der Zee (1889-1983) was the most popular African-American photographer of that time. ... William H. ...

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The major contributors to this field are; Kenneth Clark, William Grier and Price Cobbs, and Alvin Poussaint. ... Some of the major contributors to this school are; Charles Thomas, Joseph White, and William Cross. ... Some contributors to this field are; Na"im Akbar, Joseph Baldwin, Linda James Myers, Wade Nobles, Frances Cress Wesling, Amos Wilson, and Bobby Wright. ...

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Love, Jealousy, Betrayal; The modern Day Othello: "O" I"m sure we can relate to and have faced many situations involved in being a teenager right? Well that's exactly what this movie is about. Whether it be trust, jealousy or rumors we all have been though it. O is a compelling teen drama that r...

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Marcus Garvey was born on august 17, 1887 in St. Ann's bay, Jamaica. He attended school but because of his family situation of poverty he had to quit school and get a job as an apprentice in his god fathers print shop. It was at the print shop where he became aspired to become a Forman at the print ...

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One of the leading figures of the period was James Weldon Johnson , author of the pioneering novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), and perhaps best known for God's Trombones (1927), a collection of seven sermons in free verse. ... In 1929 Wallace Thurman and William Jourden Rapp collaborated on a popular play, "Harlem". ...

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War. ... He entered Harvard during its golden age and studied with William James and Albert Bushnell Hart. ...

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To serve the cause of human freedom, a person has to be brave, a leader, patient and unselfish. Throughout history many people have fought for what they believed in to gain freedom for their people. One man who did this is Booker T. Washington. Washington was an African American advocate who wan...

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Rather, he once told a black audience that there "must be a position of superior and inferior.4" James A Rawley clarifies this stating that Lincoln "placed the nation uppermost – above peace, above abolition, above property rights, and even above the constitution.5" Other ulterior motives are suggested by Hutchins who believes the Emancipation Proclamation "helped ease the Union army's shortage of soldiers6" and Chambers who believes it favoured "helping the Union sustain itself domestically and internationally.7" Neither historians sugges...

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Stories such as this are repeated over and over in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States: In January 1961, James Meredith, an African-American, applied for admission to the University of Mississippi. ... When it was over, two people were dead, twenty-eight marshals had been shot, one hundred sixty people were injured, and James Meredith became the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi. ...

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