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reason, the world yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself
through the revelation of the other world. The two ideals of the Negro is that of his color
and the struggle of attaining his self-conscious manhood. He simply wants to be seen by
society as an individual and not judged by race. Thus, throughout history since
Emancipation, the black man=s progression has been weak due to white society shaping his
Nevertheless, the success of the Negro has driven many important and intellectual
figures. For example, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Alain Locke, and others
have provided a clear path for the success of African-Americans in a society of prejudice,
ignorance, and narrow-mindedness. Booker T. Washington bestowed a definite programme
of industrial education, conciliation of the South, and submission to civil and political
rights for Negroes. He founded Tuskegee, which also provided support for Negroes to a
substantial education that southern whites would not allow them to have. However,
criticism came from both the North and the South, in relation to Was
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woman is the other half of raising the demand over society=s future within the children.
She became an educator, feminist, and intellectual even though white society only
considered her to be subjective under their control.
Another example, was Marcus Garvey, a black activist who encouraged American
blacks and others of African heritage to unify for the common good. He witnessed the transformation of the Negro from the tyranny of social
intimidation to the rejection of imitation and implied inferiority. The question blacks had during this time was whether or not
they could be a part of the white community. For this reason, the Negro artist works against an undertow of
sharp criticism and misunderstanding from his own group and unintentional bribes from
the whites. He established the
United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1918-1919, in order to influence the
movement of race solidarity. Some examples that show the inherent expressions of Negro life in America is
music and poetry. Washington and Marcus Garvey provided Negroes with an
undaunting aim to be a part of the society which so viciously rejected them and created a
political and social change. Furthermore, the racialism of blacks has provided no limitation or reservation
with respect to American life, it has been constructed in their own identities in order to
seek equality within society
. Jazz portrays the eternal soul of the Negro and in fact possesses a revolt
against weariness in the white world, while poetry exists to convey equality and the
freedom from bondage. They
represented to the Negro the concepts of black manhood and freedom from social
inequality.
In other words, the white public demands from its artists, literary and pictorial racial
pre-judgement which deliberately distorts truth and justice, as far as colored races are
concerned. The influence of this opinion did not prevent the
achievement of Negroes in education, civil rights, and political power. On the contrary, African-American
women in America recognized the importance of their role in the fight for the equality of
women=s rights, religion, science, art, and economics.
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