Jim Jeffords

lklore In The Play A Raisin The Sun Folklore is the use of traditions in story telling that are inclusive of the beliefs, the customs and the culture of a people that are passed from one generation to the other. Folklores forms an integral part of the culture that assist transmit information through the word of mouth. There is the use of the folklore in the black vernacular used in the throughout the play to broach important issues and also conflicts such as the poverty, discrimination and also…

In “Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire,” Michael Eric Dyson explores Michael Jordan’s impact on African American culture and society. He discusses Michael Jordan’s success as an athlete calling him, “perhaps the best, and best known, athlete in the world today” (1). He also points out his role as a positive influence, and a success in both marketing and business, specifically referring to his impact in the “sneaker” world. The audience for this article is specifically…

On June 11th, 1963 current President John F. Kennedy gave an address on the most controversial topic of the time: racism. Earlier that afternoon threats and aggressive statements were made at the University of Alabama, which required the presence of the National Guard. This episode transpired due to the order of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Alabama. The order was to admit two African American students to the University of Alabama. Kennedy’s goals in this speech…

The Influence of the Antebellum South in “Desiree’s Baby” Kate Chopin’s story “Desiree’s Baby” takes place in the 19th century at a time where racism and the institution of slavery in the South were at their peaks. Society was dominated by men of the White race, and both women and people of color were expected to conform to the rules set in place by a racist patriarchal culture. The story focuses on the hardships that the main character Desiree faces when it becomes apparent that her child with…

Dr. King’s Argumentation In Dr. King’s speech, he was dedicated to giving the colored the civil right that they needed for racism to come to an end. Although the Negroes were free they still got treated as slaves in which they still hadn’t received the freedom that they wanted, for that reason King went out into the public and began to protest and that same day gave out his speech to thousands of people. In Dr. King’s letter, he tells us reasonable evidence of why he was taken to Birmingham…

Martin Luther King, Jr., had experiences as a young person that shaped his beliefs and actions as an adult, when things got hard for him and his family he pulled through, since M.L. went through racial discrimination, he tried to stop it, and M. L. wanted to show people to do good and not to disrespect others for their skin color. When M. L. was six years old his white friends stopped being friends with him do to racial discrimination. His father didn’t approve of it, so when a white person told…

Race Movies are a type of film genre that only existed from the United States in 1915 till the 1950. The cinema was created from the black movie companies and only had black performers and only for the black movie peers. Only 500 Race Film was produced throughout from 1915 to the 1950. The film genre produced outside of Hollywood and completely forgotten from the film historians throughout the historic periods. The stereotypes of African-American from the Race Films like the uneducated of the…

Parchman prison farm as it related to sharecropping, convict leasing, lynching and the legalized segregation and was considered by the author as “Worse than Slavery.” From the 1880s into the 1960s, segregation in Mississippi was enforced through "Jim Crow" laws. These laws were given the name that referred to blacks in a musical show. These laws resulted in legal punishments on black people for consorting with members of another race, inter-racial…

Freedom Summer, just a mere 10 weeks of the summer of 1964, changed the world, just by changing Mississippi. Reconstruction ended and blacks were no longer slaves, but they continued to be oppressed. Mississippi was the state that kept blacks as slaves without the title. Mississippi had the lowest crime rate, supposedly, but most likely had the most murders of blacks in cold blood. The Mississippi Summer Project dived head first into the volatile violence, subjecting their volunteers to a unique…

often violated segregation laws. Between 1958 and 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested 30 times for demonstrating and participating in non-violent protests against segregation. The law he broke by being in the place restricted to blacks was Jim Crow law which segregation principle was extended to parks, cemeteries, theatres, and restaurants in an effort to prevent any contact between blacks and whites as equals. In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King responded to Clergymen’s…