History Comparison Essay The future of the freedman W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. ... Dubois's and Washington's slightly different backgrounds caused them to have different views on the future of freedman in the United States. ... He believed that by giving blacks small economic opportunities quickly rather than education first, they would be able to better themselves in many different areas in the future. First they would become economically stable, then once they were sufficient in that area they could become educated and eventually become equal with the white man. ...

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According to Ravenscroft, "Where once modernism was celebrated for carrying the past forward, it now tends to be seen as writing against the narratives of Western history; where once modernism upheld the value of traditions, now it critiques Western phallocentrism for refusing raced and gendered differences.... Unfortunately what happens most of the time is African Americans succumb to white America's ideology in order to ensure a better future for their family. ... If African Americans don't try to strive toward higher things than what white America has deemed fit, then they ar...

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This surveillance is present during his entire visit and stops once he pays for his items. ... Wise would argue that we must understand our past and history to make improvements for the future. ... It is only through a mutual understanding of one another that will lead to a more peaceful, harmonious future....

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He did more than just acknowledge that black citizens couldn't demand everything at once; he also attempted to pacify the blacks and calm the fears of the whites. Not wanting African Americans to appear as monsters, he once said, "you can be sure in the future, as in the past, that you and your families will be surrounded by the most patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unresentful people that the world has seen....

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Once they reached the safely hood of freedom in Ohio a man named John Rankin had a hideaway in his house where he allowed blacks to stay so they would not obtain physical mastery. ... Regardless of the bad experiences that they had, the African Americans moved rapidly towards a successful future. ...

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The children made a decision with their father that the bathtub was the safest....they knew their father was in danger....and they always worried about that." ( Williams, 223) The majority of the adults that fought for the change in civil rights, not of the present because that was not possible, but for the future of their children and the children to come. ... So he worked harder for the future of the Country. ... When he returned from the war, he and his brother were once again hit with a reality check that would again spark his drive to fight for civil rights. Once he returned home, ...

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Paul, the prison warden once told the sheriff who had accused John Coffey of murder, "Well at least there will be one less black man in the world, won't there? ... The sheriff once said, "John Coffey is a Negro, and in Trapingus County we"re awfully particular about giving new trials to Negroes,"(404). ... Martin Luther King once said during his famous speech, " we should judge a person not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character". It can only be hoped that this dream attains complete reality in the future. ...

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(11-14) These last lines show the speaker's feelings that America's attitude will not change in the future. As he looks "darkly" into the future it is clear that America has already wasted her potential to ethically be a great nation. ... Once he is strong, the white people can no longer ask him to eat in kitchen. ... While McKay paints a desolate future for black people living in society, Hughes waits for the day when blacks will finally have their equality. ...

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History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. ... (King p. 8) Martin Luther King concludes by pointing out the importance of expanding on the current campaign, what his hopes are for the future, why he wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail, why the campaign was the right thing to do, why America was a better place in January of 1964 than it was in January of 1963, and why America can't wait any longer to be wholly free. ... The Civil Rights movement was brought once again to National attention with the Mar...

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Why We Can't Wait History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. ... (King p. 8) Martin Luther King concludes by pointing out the importance of expanding on the current campaign, what his hopes are for the future, why he wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail, why the campaign was the right thing to do, why America was a better place in January of 1964 than it was in January of 1963, and why America can't wait any longer to be wholly free. ... The Civil Rights movement was brought once again to Na...

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History is made up of significant events that shape our future, and leaders who influence our destiny. ... (King p. 8) Martin Luther King concludes by pointing out the importance of expanding on the current campaign, what his hopes are for the future, why he wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail, why the campaign was the right thing to do, why America was a better place in January of 1964 than it was in January of 1963, and why America can't wait any longer to be wholly free. ... The Civil Rights movement was brought once again to National attention with the Mar...

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He was considered a threat and named a "notorious Negro agitator " by the future first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. ... This apprenticeship not only established a base for his future involvements with newspapers, but it also taught him the means of delivering messages to masses of people. ... He wasted no time once back in Jamaica to start his own organization of which he planned to finally liberate his race through. ... Garvey settled in Harlem, New York once in the United States. ...

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A future white employer of Richard tells him he will never be a writer. ... Once this scheme was set into a Negro's head they would then spread in to all their peers through negative thought like a plague designed to destroy the black race. ...

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"The muddy Mississippi made Hughes think of the roles in human history played by the Congo, the Niger, and the Nile, down whose water the early slaves were once sold," (Harris). ... In the poem, the "rivers" that Hughes talks about represent the hope for the future that they carry along with them. ...

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Every woman in her eyes played a role in shaping the future of all women. ... They were once thought of as just housewives, Kitchen workers, nursery worker, caregivers of prisoners, and the women had a place. ...

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The very next year, Variety once again commended the show this time praising efforts in exposing the issues of prejudice. ... Julia paved a way for black shows in the future by sustaining through ridicule and a time where show experienced both positive and negative reception. ...

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Du Bois fought for the same thing, but had different ways of handling the situation in order to change the country we once knew. ... He wanted to rally the people so that they would fight to get liberty and to follow it once it is achieved. ... Washington took the first steps in training new school teachers on how to educate which will prepare them for future work. ...

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FINAL Toni Morrison once said that race is a central, defining feature of American literature. ... Huck Finn is not pro slavery but rather against the idea of slavery once taken out of the southern culture. ... The historical American literature of the past and of the future all in a way, whether they realize it or not, in some shape or form are going to have a central idea upon race. ...

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The American dream is not only to accomplish your goals but to also feel comfortable and secure once they have been accomplished. ... This once again correlates to people having different American dreams based on their situations and struggles. ... Once again we see how our American dream can be affected by our race and were we come from. ... That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations - those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. ...

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Although roughly ten percent of the total population of the United States is black, more than half of the two million incarcerated Americans are black, ("Racism, Prisons, and the Future of Black America" 2000) The pattern of racial bias in these statistics is confirmed by the research of the US Commission on Civil Rights, which found that while African Americans today constitute only 14% of all drug users nationally, they are 35% of all drug arrests, 55% of all drug convictions, and 75% of all prison admissions for drug offenses. ... ("Racism, Prisons, and the Futur...

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Towards the end of the book, Janie resents her grandmother for "living" her life for her and planning her future. To find out what will happen in a persons future, they need to live their life on their own and not have it planned for them. ... So, Janie was not happy once again with her situation. ...

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And once he got out he finished his degree in English at Columbia university. ... His ten year period of shedding his white world that he was once so deeply ingrained in, he began to write anti-white poems and essays. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxiv) Amiri is all about using poetry as a machine-gun, he once made a comment "we want poems that kill" (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... Once a woman asked him couldn't amy whites help? ...

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The future would prove no better as the KKK was formed and the civil rights struggles that would carry themselves from reformation to today's contemporary America. ... Not only would they have to find a means of displaying their intelligence in a world that denied them education, but also they would have to prove to themselves that they were not inferior to those that once were their masters. ... Once the smoke settles, the United States may have the right to finally call itself a free and equal country....

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"Owning, building, acquiring-that was his life, his future, his present, and all the history he knew. ... Identifying his true self and allowing himself the responsibility of his actions all led to his deep longing to go off on his own and, for once in his life, not owe anyone for anything. ...

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Where once their existence was hardly acknowledged, black Americans have stormed the scene of pop culture. ... By supporting the revolution, Black art commits the community to change and a brighter, better future. ...

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