Essays on Negros

Paternalism is defined as a relationship between authority figures and their sub ordinates that are dependent on them for their basic needs in the context of their relationship between white employers and their Negro slaves. This relationship signified that the slaves were the responsibility of their owners. The employers were not just responsible to ensure that the basic requirements of their employees were made. Their responsibility includes that the welfare and well being of their sub ordinates were also taken care of and any advice or suggestions that they gave were for the best interest of the slaves . Before ...

In A People's History of the United States, Zinn devotes chapter 13 to socialist movements during the early 1900's. Is this justified or is he overstating the impact of the socialist movement? Socialist movements gained tract in the turn of the century, and many workers were keen getting a fair share of their efforts from the employers. Also, people demanded more from the government, pushing for the protection of the old, sick and poor through programs that would reach out to the people. The formation of the National Civic Federation by Ralph Easley spelled doom and hard times for ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. is a famous name in the entire world, particularly in America. He was a minister and a militant under African-American Civil Rights Movement. He played a principle role in the American civil rights movement with all his energy from 1950 until he was assassinated in 1968 (Ling, 2015). He had the passion and the heart to fight for all sorts of injustices in America via peaceful demonstration, such as fighting for African American equality, the poor, as well as those individuals who fell under injustice. He did so much that he is remembered every year ...

Introduction

The emancipation of the rights of blacks in the 18th Century was significantly shaped by a series of intellectual discourse and antagonism between certain influential figures in the African American society. Booker T. Washington was an accomplished scholar who rose from being born into a slave family to becoming the head of the Tuskegee Institute. He wielded great support in the Black community and even within the corridors of power where he was a close confidant of President Theodore Roosevelt. Within the same political dispensation, there was W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the first outstanding black intellectuals ...

Described as a man of the first many in terms of his inventions and accomplishments, Benjamin Banneker was the first self-educated African-American born in 1731 in an enslaved family. Both of Benjamin Banneker parents were free people considering that his mother was a daughter of an English woman named Mary, who got married to a slave Bannka after she had freed him. Therefore, Benjamin was able to elude the cruelty that many African-Americans went through as slaves and even had the privilege of attending a Quaker school while staying with his maternal grandmother. In that, he began his education ...

The Progressive Era was meant to improve the economic, social and political issues affecting America. However, one of the most critical areas that needed reform was the plight of the African Americans, which was overlooked by most of the white progressives. The issue of racism affected many aspects of the American’s society. For example, the blacks were denied the opportunity to participate in the voting process. The progressive movement did little in terms of improving the lives of African Americans. The white progressives supported segregation as they believed that African Americans were inferior and in some instances they ...

Martin Luther King Junior delivered the speech titled I have a dream in 1963 before thousands of protesters during the march on Washington. His speech highlighted the injustices that the blacks and minority in America underwent while presenting the America that he desired to see in future. Some of the injustices that the blacks were subjected to included living in abject poverty whereas the whites had all the material wealth. Racial discrimination, whereby the Negros were not allowed to share facilities with the whites is also an injustice that Martin Luther highlighted in his speech. On the other hand, ...

The New Deal

Social Security Act is the first welfare law planned to ensure security of old age, unemployment, disability and poor people in America. The act resulted after second deal in 1935. The Social Security was a continuous process which started after 1932 under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s rule, throughout 1933-1939. The thesis of this essay is anchored in providing the historical background of the social security act, and how subsequent amendments manifested in shaping up this social scheme. Before the acknowledgement of the new Bill into the American Social institutions, some benchmark processes had begun in earnest, and prepared the ...