Cited: Wikipedia. “Desmond Tutu” Web. 30 June, 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu
Cited: Wikipedia. “Desmond Tutu” Web. 30 June, 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu
Desmond’s mother joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She joined the church because she wanted to raise her two boys and one girl to believe in the Bible. His father, William Thomas Doss was a carpenter. During the great depression, he ended up working in a shoe factory.…
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave on a small farm in Virginia. After the emancipation he moved with his family to work in the salt and coal mines. After an education at Hampton Institute Booker received a teaching position at Hampton that sparked ideas for his future. In 1881 Booker found Tuskegee Institute. Though he offered nothing that was innovative in industrial education, he became the chief black exemplar and spokesman. He convinced the southern white employers and governs that Tuskegee offered an education that would keep blacks “down on the farm and in the trades”(Washington. 1963). He even convinced the self-made white northerners like Carnegie and Rockefeller to “help” him and to his people living within post-reconstruction south, he gave them industrial education.…
Nelson Mandela was a visionary freedom fighter who brought about the end of an apartheid society and solidified the democratic elections of presidents by majority rule to South Africa. Born in 1918, Mandela’s early introduction to leadership in the Thembu tribe molded his democratic beliefs ("Nelson Mandela," 2009). His youth found him exposed to Western culture which ultimately led him to abandon the Thembu culture and relocate to Johannesburg ("Nelson Mandela," 2009). It was during his early years in Johannesburg that he explored the many political philosophies that surrounded him. It was also during this time that Mandela began thoughtful observation and contemplation of the struggles of the black men and women in South Africa. Mandela came to the conclusion, “It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity” (Sohail, 2005). His profound dissatisfaction with the apartheid society and the oppression of his people eventually led him to join the African National Congress or ANC in 1944 ("Nelson Mandela," 2009).…
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Tupac Amaru Shakur was born 16 June 1971 in Brooklyn, New York. His mother Afeni Shakur was married with Billy Garland. 1971 she was sent to the Greenwich Village jail. In May 1971, she was freed from all charges and one month later Tupac was born. Although unconfirmed by the Shakur family, several sources list his birth name as Lesane Parish Crooks. This name was supposedly entered on the birth certificate because Afeni feared her enemies would attack her son, and disguised his true identity using a different last name. She changed it later, following her separation from Garland and marriage to Mutulu Shakur.…
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Booker T Washington was a native of the south, born in Virginia as a slave. Washington was educated at Hampton Normal a vocational school. As a young man, he became a key figure and founded the Tuskegee University. Du Bois born in Massachusetts had a mixed racial background in a community surrounded with whites. Du Bois received a “classical” education and earned a PhD in Psychology. Dubois was first black person who received a doctorate from Harvard. The first time that Du Bois encounter Jim Crow laws, came in 1885 when he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to attend Fisk University. Du Bois for the first time realized the magnitude of American racism. This led Du Bois to become one of the most prominent civil right leaders for the blacks.…
W.E.B. DuBois: He was an american civil rights activist, leader, Pan-africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar he became a naturalised citizen at the age of 95, he also was the secretary of the niagara…
In his speech, Desmond Tutu describes Mandela’s impressively magnanimous treatment of those the leaders of apartheid who treated him so…
When the slaves were freed in 1856, Booker’s family moved to Virginia. He worked in a salt mine until he saved enough money to travel from one side of Virginia to the other to go to school. After he finished school, he became a teacher until 1881 when a principal position opened in Alabama. Booker moved there and started the Tuskegee Institute. He taught his students to be hard-working and he believed African American’s could be equal to whites if educated, even during segregation. Civil rights advocates didn’t think like Booker T. Washington. Rich white southerners did give him moral support and money to run the Tuskegee Institute. He did speak out against racism in his life and also said that he believed African American’s should have the right to vote. He wasn’t alive during the civil rights era, but he did give money to fight discrimination and segregation. After Booker T. Washington died in 1915, the Tuskegee Institute became a historical site.…
Rev. Billy Graham has revealed the reason why some young Christians abandon their faith later on in life, and also gave parents tips on how to raise their children in a godly way.…
Booker was the first teacher of Tuskegee Institute. Booker T. Washington became the spokesman for the black community and those who believed that education skills. They also provide education for women in cooking and nursing. Many black men received skills in carpentry and education. This was a great way for blacks to receive higher education.…
Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "I have a dream" conveyed very meaningful and powerful images within the speech. Many images that make you not only imagine but feel the pain the black men and women felt back in those days, the discrimination, and hatred white men had towards the black. But for what reason? Because they weren't white. They didn't see them as equal and assumed they were better. This was all over a skin color. Dr. King speaks about that it is said "All men are created equal" but they weren't treated as if they were.…
It’s hard to imagine how one man can change a nation with a simple idea of equality. Dating back to the 1960’s, people were treated differently depending on their race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual background. Whites males were the superior to everyone else and blacks, or African Americans, were looked down upon. While African Americans were treated better in the 1960’s than they were in the 1860’s when they were slaves in the United States, they still were treated unequally in our society. It wasn’t until the 1950’s that a movement started that changed the United States, rewrote history, and help shape the world that we know today.…
W.E.B. DuBois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He died August 27, 1963 but not before he was known as a historian,professor writer, editor, sociologist and my favorite , the radicalist. Du Bois grew up in a single parent home with no father. He went to schools that had mostly white students. (This I found very intriguing because his attitude was more blacks should be equal no matter what unlike his counter part Booker T. Washington whose attitude seemed to be put whites first.) I also learned that while many speak of Booker T. Washington's illegal and slick ways, Du Bois had been to prison for allowing…