1920-1980: A Rush From the Past to the Future The 1920's, a period recovering from the first Great War, saw the adjustment of social, cultural and economic forces in the United States. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy once said, "History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. ...
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. ...
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....
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....
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. ...
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. ...
Phoenix's struggle to once again travel a difficult passage through the country into town for her ill grandson's medicine is well represented by the story's title. ... Furthermore, Phoenix's unshakable determination to travel the "worn path" for the sake of her grandson alludes to the determination of black people to overcome adversity in attaining a more meaningful future for their younger generations. ...
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. ...
"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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
In The Souls of Black Folk, Dubois criticizes Washington's argument in "The Atlanta Compromise," saying that Washington's theory of accommodation is not the solution to gaining civil rights and racial equality in America, and he suggests his own solution by stressing the importance of higher education as well as political, social, and economic equality at once. ... Instead, he believes that once they work hard enough and prove to be equal, then they can eventually receive their citizenship and equal rights. ... They both had a huge impact on the United States during the la...
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. ...
Yet within such stories, emerge heroes who defied the conventional status quo, pushing for the recognition of equality, a idea once thought to be radical. ... " Once such ideas took hold, black men began to "sharpen their weapons to secure its victory" (Fanon, p.8). ... Whether it is through violence or through demonstrations that valued peace, they gave the natives reasoning and hope for a better future. ...
Well Martin Luther King once said "White America wants us to pull ourselves up from our boot straps, but we don't have any boots". ... Past and future African American will continue to profit huge corporations and continue remain to be manipulated by Fortune 500 Corporations. ...
"Pictures of Christ, the Apostles, Mary, the Crucifixion Maybe one day I"ll put them up, but once, when I held them up to my fabric and mat covered walls they made me feel very small and unhappy, so I took them down. ... Shug abandons the religion that makes her an outcast and embraces a God that she knows will love and accept her regardless of her past or future transgressions. ...
