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120 things you probably didn’t know were created by Black inventors It’s difficult to imagine a world without the many inventions by Black People This Black History Month, we’ve highlighted over 100 inventions that the world would not have if it weren’t for Black inventors Here’s the big list: In 1885, Sarah Goode became the first Black woman to receive a US patent
A Look at The African-american Dream in The Great Gatsby This essay provides a unique perspective on F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" by exploring the intertwining themes of social class and race, particularly focusing on African American characters
100 Greatest African Americans - Wikipedia 100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002
On Reimagining The Great Gatsby as a Black American Story And The Great Gatsby? There are few American novels that have inspired so many interpretations in almost every medium one can think of Some are dazzling but others seem to lack a raison d’étre Plugging in slightly different characters, actors or music into the exact same story isn’t enough
(1865) Frederick Douglass, What the Black Man Wants In the 1950s and 1960s during the height of the civil rights movement when African American activists articulated their grievances against American society, those outside the community often pose the question, “What do black men want?”
What the Black Man Wants - Teaching American History Of Douglass’s various arguments in favor of suffrage for newly emancipated men, which seem most compelling, and why? Why did he regard suffrage as an imperative of national honor to enfranchise the freedmen? What ill effects did he believe blacks’ continued disfranchisement would produce?
What the Black Man Wants - Facing History and Ourselves During the Reconstruction era, Frederick Douglass demanded government action to secure land, voting rights, and civil equality for Black Americans The following passage is excerpted from a speech given by Douglass to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in April 1865 We may be asked, I say, why we want it [the right to vote]
How Black Men Changed the World - Smithsonian Magazine While there are countless Black men in our world impacting many sectors and industries, the men were especially chosen, not solely because of their achievements, but because they made conscious