Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Civil rights movemnet female writer Maggie Lena Walker



Maggie Lena Walker
bio-http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/walker-ml.html
"An address to the 34th Annual Session of the Right Worthy Grand Council of Virginia, Independent Order of St.. Luke, held in 3rd Street A.M.E. Church"
the transcript can be found at http://www.nps.gov/malw/speech.htm

The first impression of Maggie L. Walker’s address is that it is poetic. It is the civil rights movement because it calls for a joining of men and women to unite for a single goal. She presents a valid argument for building and establishing a bank do that interest can be acquired along with other forms of municipal cash flows. She preaches a civil action about the good of her idea for the community not just a single person or set of people. Her proposition is presented through praise and resembles a mother bird pushing her baby bird from the nest to see if it will fly. She too is pushing her baby, the black community, from the nest, clutches of saving money in random cracks and crevices without collecting its full potential.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

civil rights movement male writer Malcom X




excerpt form Malcolm X's speech "Race War"
"You got a bad habit. Your hooked and don't know it. You got what's known as "White's Disease". You think you can't get along without the white man. You think you can't get some clothes without the white man. You think you can't get a house without the white man. You think you can't even get a job without the white man. Your worse than the man who thinks he can't get along without heroin. Your worse than the man who thinks he can't get along without morphine. Your worse than the junkie, you're in worse shape than the junkie because, the junkie only has a little monkey on his back and your running around with a big white ape named Uncle Sam on your back. "

on the right side bar of the blog you can listen to the speech "Race War"

The speech “race war” by pre-pilgrimage Malcolm X is an extreme calling that s characteristic of the civil rights movement. His speech is a cry for equality, justice, a land for the black community and revenge against the white man. It just so happens that now he sees the only way to gather support and a response from his people is to advocate violence and downplay the government. The purpose of this speech is to rally the black community to become fed up with the treatment they have received. Despite fallacies in his argument he builds a fiery fervor among his audience. What Malcolm X preaches seems more like the Harlem Renaissance where the blacks want a solace and equality with the white man. At the end of his speech he advocates use of peaceful protest by using the “truth” to fight the white man.
This speech’s purpose is fulfilled by down talking the white man. Malcolm X Taking a superior view against the white man it easier for the audience to accept that the white man is wrong and needs to have revenge taken upon them. Malcolm X supplies a list of wrong doings by the white man and denouncement of “noble wars” fought by the white man on American soil. The civil war according to this speech was fought solely for white Americans and that blacks are not valued in America.
The correlations between this speech and the Civil Rights movement are that he advocates peaceful protest, that the black community is treated unfairly and that there must be a change. He sounds more like a Marcus Garvey though because instead of ending segregation he wishes to build a black America.

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music is a very influential form of art. Both Harlem's jazz and the re-occurrence of social gospel form the Civil Rights movement both impacted American history. Which music type do you feel made a greater imprint on American society.







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Harlem Jazz

Civil Rights Gospel and hymes










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Today rap battles establish serious street cred who would be the mac daddy out of these influential people of the civil Rights movement and Harlem
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who would win a rap battle



Martian "Luth master" King Jr.

Bob "the lizard king" Dylan

Rosa "not moving" Parks

Louie "toot the horn" Armstrong

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Jessie "the fighter" Fauset

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Elizabeth Catlett's "Civil Rights Congress"
The picture is of the black man that represents the Civil Rights Congress using the puppet of the KKK to torment an innocent black child. Like Bob Dylan’s mentioning the KKK are just pawns in the government’s game. Elizabeth is calling out not the pawns but the government. She is going directly to the source of discrimination and oppression. Her picture mirrors the Civil Rights movement because the people too protest against the government not the people. Her art work is a peaceful protest that stings the mind. The KKK represents death by being a skeleton and holding a noose. What is even scarier about the picture is that a black man who represents the Civil Rights Congress is controlling the KKK skeleton. This bold statement is a peaceful protest that mirrors the Civil Rights Movement’s characteristics of being peaceful and addressing the government.


civil rights musician Bob Dylan the lizard king

Bob Dylan- "only a pawn in their game"

song lyrics
lyrics
A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers' blood.A finger fired the trigger to his name.
A handle hid out in the dark
A hand set the spark
Two eyes took the aim
Behind a man's brain
But he can't be blamed
He's only a pawn in their game.
A South politician preaches to the poor white man,"You got more than the blacks, don't complain.
You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain.And the Negro's name
Is used it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid,
And the marshals and cops get the same,
But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool.
He's taught in his school From the start by the rule That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight' Bout the shape that he's in
But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game.
From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks,
And the hoof beats pound in his brain.And he's taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch To hang and to lynch
To hide 'neath the hood To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain He ain't got no name
But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game.
Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught.They lowered him down as a king.
But when the shadowy sun sets on the one
That fired the gun He'll see by his grave
On the stone that remainsCarved next to his name
His epitaph plain:Only a pawn in their game.

This song by Bob Dylan sums up the civil rights movement by being the camera behind the camera. The masses are upset with the government and the government appeases half the masses (the whites) and says “well you don’t have it as bad as they do” (they being the blacks). Then the government feeds the white masses through the education system that it is alright to discriminate against the blacks.
This song calls out the government just as the civil rights movement does. It mentions, Medgar Evers a civil rights activist who called out the government who was meet with the wrath of the mindless pawns. The song puts the blame on the government which controls the laws that cause segregation and unjust treatment of blacks. Medgar Evers

Monday, May 26, 2008

Civil Rights movement history



The civil rights movement history
The civil rights movement’s soapbox derby cart was pushed in 1955 when Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. This resulted in her arrest and a black boycott of the Montgomery bus system. The boycott helped show the strength of unity among black Americans. Correlations among the civil rights movement and the Harlem renaissance include black unity, and making a peaceful statement.
Unity among black Americans proved to be a very powerful tool and was utilized to form peaceful protests. Martian Luther King Jr. head manned the civil rights movement by utilizing non-violent protests until his assassination. These non-violent protests accomplished much and displayed a flowering of power through unity among the black community. Like the Harlem renaissance the civil rights drew it power through the unification of black Americans as one. Unlike the Renaissance the civil rights movement focused on turning all of America into a safe haven for blacks not just the city of Harlem.
The Civil Rights movement and Harlem renaissance used only peaceful protests against discrimination. Both periods utilized the pen as opposed to the sword and the voice instead of the fist. The civil rights movement’s main source of overlooked art is embedded into the speeches by Martian Luther King Jr. and others like him. While the Harlem renaissance’s art is shown through music, poetry painting and sculpture.
The civil rights movement proved just like the Harlem renaissance that unity and peace are exceptionally powerful tools when in pursuit of equality and recognition. The great people that held major roles in the civil rights movement and Harlem renaissance are still famous today for the great deed. The civil rights movement ended in 1968under the administration of Lyndon B Johnson and the signing of the civil rights act of 1968.
 
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