Essay questions
Malcolm X was an African American leader who had to undergo many difficulties, so an s to be able to fulfil his goals. Once he was prisoned for ten years although he served for seven years after being awarded parole. Throughout his time in jail, he converted to Islam and became a man with a new identity.
He held that Christianity was a white man’s religion and even declared it a Fard. He believed that the religion was forced upon the African Americans throughout the period of slavery. His main goal was to convert the African Americans to Islam. In order to achieve this goal, he preached adherence to a strict moral code and the reliance on the assistance of the African Americans amongst themselves. He delivered a different message from the other African American leaders at the time in that he believed that the white people should not be trusted.
Dubois and Washington were African American leaders who had to develop many philosophies in order to solve the problems that the African Americans had. Although the problems that they dealt with were similar, the approaches that they implemented were different. The problems that they dealt with were similar, and they included; discrimination, limited educational opportunities and legal disenfranchisement.
What was their main contrast was that the two leaders differed in the manner to solve the problems. Bois embodied a political and social trust system much more suggestive of his northern, and to some scope global, heritage. According to Wrenn (2014), Du Bois’ attitude was a shifting objective (from peace and anti-colonialism to Marxism and Pan-Africanism) and thus, is problematic to incorporate in such a short-lived space. Du Bois was the flawless intellectual who was continuously absorbing new material and creating a progressively complex philosophy that at times opposed itself. In principle, however, Du Bois understood that African Americans should activist for full civil rights and equality (Moor, 2014).
Significant to Washington’s theory of persistence was education. The perseverance of his labor with the Tuskegee Institute was not to graduate intermediate class African American experts, but rather to fashion agricultural and mechanical teachers who would toil in African American societies to guarantee that those who were enthusiastic and able to work had the abilities to do so. His accomplishment was inspiring.
Music is one part of the African American literature that has had many historical meanings. First, the music that the African Americans played was used mostly during their time in slavery as they worked on the cotton fields. Additionally after the slavery, the African American communities resorted to music so as to unchain themselves from the poverty that they had. Currently, the music that the African American plays depicts their change from the period of slavery to now. Additionally, the music can be used to entertain.
The federal government and administrative branch intervened with the civil rights movement of the 50's, 60's. One main event that occurred is when 13 African American activists decided to board a bus and visit all the states that had racism and black discrimination. The individuals received a lot of threats as their bus was firebombed and the tires slashed. The government in the end had to intervene as the president had to provide security for the individuals. This was during the 60s. in the 1950s there was a grand trial that concerned the issue of school segregation. The ruling was that the public schools violated the rights of the citizens of the United States (Wrenn, 2014).
References
Wrenn, C. (2014). Abolition Then and Now: Tactical Comparisons Between the Human Rights Movement and the Modern Nonhuman Animal Rights Movement in the United States. Journal Of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics, 27(2), 177-200. doi:10.1007/s10806- 013-9458-7
MOOR, N. Y. (2014). The New Fight in Civil Rights. Ebony, 69(12), 130.
