Alain Locke was also known as an American philosopher and is credited for writing influential works on philosophy, art, aesthetics, and education. ... Harris and Molesworth focus on Locke's philosophy: advocacy of pluralism; insistence of on relativism concerning race relations; emphasis on social democracy; concepts of "value", and aesthetic ideas. Critic Steven Chabot agrees that the biography show that Locke's influence as a leader came from his constant contemplation of the issues surrounding race, cultural and aesthetic pluralism, and the philosophy of value. ... A...

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• Grade Level: High School

Alain Locke was also known as an American philosopher and is credited for writing influential works on philosophy, art, aesthetics, and education. ... Harris and Molesworth focus on Locke's philosophy: advocacy of pluralism; insistence of on relativism concerning race relations; emphasis on social democracy; concepts of "value", and aesthetic ideas. Critic Steven Chabot agrees that the biography show that Locke's influence as a leader came from his constant contemplation of the issues surrounding race, cultural and aesthetic pluralism, and the philosophy of value. ... A...

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• Grade Level: High School

Cone's thesis is that at the end of the two men's lives, contrary to public opinion, they had moved closer together in philosophies and were willing to do anything, even die to better the living conditions of black people in the United States. ... After learning that X was a vital figure in the Civil Rights Movement and helped empower blacks I began to read more on my own about X and other leading figures besides King in the Civil Rights Movement. ... While the Asian and African countries, who paid tribute agree with Cone that Malcolm X was worthy of praise and helped the black ca...

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The Invisible Man's Quest for Identity 2. 1 Disillusionment from the Philosophy of Booker T. ... Until his expulsion he has lived with the - later abandoned - illusion that by receiving education and exercising humility towards whites he will be able to "help shape the destiny of [the black] people" (31). ... Still, Bledsoe has no interest in the college's existence to help the black race but rather he sees this institution as a possibility for him to execute power given to him by the whites. ... After visiting Emerson he finds out about the true content of the letters, g...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehum...

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Its purpose was to promote self-help programs for blacks, African independence struggles, back-to-Africa plans, and racial pride. ... Jazz embraced the nuances and jagged edges of the collective black experience but it could not self-consciously energize the nationalist philosophy in quite the way the more lyrically focused hip-hop does. ...

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He helped me to find some great speeches of Martin Luther King and to get started. ... At this point in time, he was not interested in becoming a pastor like his father; he hoped to become a doctor or a lawyer because he wanted to help people. ... With the help of presidential candidate John F. ... The police arrived in time to prevent further damage and helped the people. ...

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The Civil Rights Act of 1960 provided for the appointment of referees to help blacks register to vote, likewise the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed literacy test in many southern states. ... Following the depression there were many programs and acts to help the nation recover from the depression. ...

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Most times families were pulled apart and never saw each other again and this helped the Americans break or strip down these people in order to rebuild them the way they wanted. ... This public discussion helped to raise questions regarding identity and representation (Gates and McKay, 1996). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Once people of color could claim equal protection under the law, they would predictably use their civil rights victory to help undermine the institution of slavery" (Jones, p. 25) Howard's prediction is correct. ... True empathy might help our country move forward, but simple words on a document that sound far from personal will make little impact. ... Thanks to the course I have taken regarding the philosophy of racism and diversity, as well as the criminology courses that provided me with knowledge on the discrimination minorities experience in our legal system, I have been enlight...

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While at Crozer Theological Seminary, he studied theology, philosophy, ethics, the Social Gospel of Walter Rauschenbush, and the religious and social views of Reinhold Niebuhr. ... King and the SCLC were invited by local black leaders to help organize a protest to end segregation in downtown stores, to achieve equal opportunity in employment, and to establish a biracial commission to promote further desegregation. ...

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King's Challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. ... With Levison and Bayard Rustin's help, King and the SCLC decided to pressure President Eisenhower about voting-rights laws and the proposed Civil Rights Act. ...

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Throughout the 19th and 20th century many political ideas have helped change and shape society, to what it is presently today. ... It was believed that without state help these problems could not be eliminated. ... The society consisted of just 11 women; they attempted to change the Reform Act with he help of Henry Fawcett and John Stuart Mill MP. ... Elizabeth Wolstenholm Elmy who was on the Married Women's Property committee helped this along. ... This was helped in 1870 when Emily Davis and Barbara Bodichon helped set up Girton college, the first university for women. ...

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With the help of the Christian church they managed to start a kind of non-violent revolution which finally made the white people understand the injustice of segregation, so that discrimination by law was finally abolished. ... Looking in the future optimistically, he combined protest, accommodation, and self-help, hoping that the black community could reach an end of segregation through non-violence and self-confidence. ... Daddy King, as he was called by his family, was an example for Martin, who was deeply influenced by his home and his church, which helped him in the white racist society...

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Thus, the theme of independence and womanhood helped raise the status of African-American women, but inversely pointed out the inadequacies in the lives of non-African-American women. 4) SECTION 2 - Maya Angelou CHAPTER 1 "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise" These first two lines of the last stanza of STILL I RISE showed that African-Americans could be in control of their own environment by influencing the system of hierarchy that was established in slavery. ... Well's "to sell my life as dearly as possible" philosophy and sacrifice their lives for a cause. ...

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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

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