Thursday, February 26, 2009
Civil Rights brings Equality
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Privilege.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
NAACP and the African American experience
Some similarities between the NAACP’s relevance to the African American experience and the legal movement would include that now that the NAACP is there to create equality among it’s citizens and that’s exactly what the legal movement did as well. The legal movement made it equal and fair for all poll tax paying citizens to vote. The NAACP also looked into making things fair and equal for African Americans and all citizens and while that is not the exact same as the legal movement it definitely shares some relevance with it.
Reconstruction was a time in America that represented great possibility to realize the ideals of freedom, equality and justice for all but it also was a time of disappointment and betrayed it’s own ideas (Karenga, 163). Basically reconstruction looked at the transformation of the South, the abolishment of slavery, and establishing the rights of all freed slaves. Most say it was not a success and when looking at the history one has to agree. The blacks were forced into semi-enslaved status because the federal government failed to give Blacks land and equipment, the white terrorist societies like the KKK rose to power, the supreme court’s eroding constitutional and legislative gains for Blacks through rulings favorable to the South all were reasons that reconstruction in the South did not succeed.
Currently, the NAACP is still advocating civil rights for citizens and their communities. They are also conducting voter mobilization. They still continue their role as legal advocate for civil rights issues along with focusing on some other issues such as educational development for our youth. With more then 500,000 members the association is still going strong and advocating citizens and their rights.
After listening to our two guest speakers I have realized just how much more important African and African American history and it’s studies are. I learned new things and about new people I had never heard of, and just how big of a difference those people had made in other’s lives. Learning about people like Clara Luper and what a big difference she made just being from Oklahoma, and Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher was amazing and really makes you think how much just one person can do to change our lives. The speakers we had in class were very informative and I found them to be really interesting.
Friday, February 6, 2009
India Arie
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Booker T. Washington high school, the pride of the great southwest!!
