A History Of Black Achievement In America Essay

In the world that we live in today and how diverse it is, I think that it is essential to know your background, especially if you’re an African American. So every week when we’re assigned to watch a film(s) and type the opinion essay. I think it brings me just a little bit closer ever week. And these 3 videos that were assigned this week, I think that it is so astounding to show what they have came up with. The first video. A History of Black Achievement in America Episode 3. It talks about how blacks and education came to be. It tells of how Lincoln University opened its doors in 1854 and how that was basically the first HBCU in America. It also talks about how blacks contributed $40,000,000 towards the education of their children, so to me it was essential to the parents that their children had an education and were leaders for the new generation. The video discusses how the Dred Scott decision impacted the lives of himself and other free slaves that fled from the South and went up North so that they would have better living opportunities and also better treatment. And I just think why would someone want to claim another human being that breathes and bleeds just like you be treated like a piece of property, and not a human. It’s really disturbing if you think about it. …show more content…
Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, and Marcus Garvey. From reading and listening to the narrator I assume that DuBois and Washington had some sort of disagreement. Because DuBois thought that the problems of the South should have been a nationwide problem and not just a North vs. South thing, and I totally agree. Why did the whites think that America is so good and things of that nature, but they’re all for hurting the black man and doing harm to him. Things like that just irritate my