Essays on African American

Gun-related violence in schools is a pervasive issue and has greatly increased in recent years, although school shootings have occurred since our country was being formed. The earliest known school shooting in the United States took place in 1764 and was known as the Pontiac…

Racial inequality has brought negative change to our people and sent some of the most innocent through prison and death. Our most significant successes will arrive when all types of people can coexist peacefully and effectively, despite color, gender, age, and beliefs. Inequality creates emotional…

Discrimination is a critical matter in the United States of America. There are many different types of racial discrimination. A person can be discriminated against because of their age, disability, race, gender, economic status, national origin, and ethnicity. Racial discrimination still exists in 2019. As…

The act of taking a situation as it is and having the ability to deal with it accordingly, often known as the act of realism, happens to be an idea that many people struggle to master. However, two men named William Du Bois and Booker…

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” Who was Du Bois and what story did he write? Du Bois was the first African American to earn a phD from Harvard for this helped him to be able to write the extraordinary…

Du Bois is one of the first black African American sociologists to discuss the issue of race being a problem; he is an extremely prolific, influential and relevant being in terms of his work, he laid down the foundation to be able to discuss the…

The novel Black Like Me follows a man named John Howard Griffin beginning in the city of New Orleans. Griffin had an unusual concept he wanted to pursue, he wanted to turn his Caucasian skin into that of an African American man. The reasoning behind…

“For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man’s good intentions toward his fellow man.” John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me. People have always expressed their…

Most people in the world recognize the troubles and prosecution that African Americans receive from people with different color skin, but there is only one man who would purposely position himself to deal with the hate given by people with white skin. While hiding his…

To begin with, this narrative of Olaudah Equiano is extremely powerful and inspirational. Not only does it illustrate his own narrative, but some key details such as: how he bought his freedom, what he did with his freedom, and how he became an abolitionist and…