Howard Community College Freedom for African Americans Paper Proposal

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Beginning Thesis: Following reconstruction, Jim Crow laws began to develop in the south. These laws were created at the state and local level in order to enforce racial segregation in the United States. During this time period, two black leaders emerged, Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Dubois. Each leader had a different idea on how to combat Jim Crow laws in the south. Of the two, W.E.B. Dubois had the correct philosophy for black advancement during the Jim Crow era.

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Last Name 1 Your Name Instructor Name Course Number Date Title: Freedom for African Americans: What is Free? Questions or Main arguments: What defines freedom? Currently are African Americas free? Who defines freedom? What are the struggled faced by Modern-Day African Americans? What have African Americas faced in the past? How did African Americans adapt to life with their new found freedom? Approach: These questions are important when conducting research because they provide a basis for continuing to dig deeper. In order to calculate and see if African Americas in modern day are free, we must begin my defining what exactly freedom is. This is important because it gives a background that will reinforce ideas and main points later on in the proposal/paper. The second question I listed is, “Currently are African Americans free?”. This question summarizes the main idea and point of research. The last two questions I chose to list under the second portion of this proposal tie in very nicely together. In order to fully answer the research question, we must go back in time and Last Name 2 compare how African Americans were being treated in the past versus now. This comparison is great and will further allow me to research and dive deeper into this topic of “What is Free?”. Sources: The first primary source was found online however it is a book. The title is “The story of the Negro Untold”. This book gives great insight on how African Americas were being treated before freedoms were granted to them. This is a great primary source because it can be used either for background information or a solid foundation to develop the main idea. The second primary source is also a book that was found using an online source. The title of the second primary source is “Hold Fast to your Dreams”. In this source, the past life of a young Africa-American boy is being told from a child’s innocent and yet raw and real perspective. The third source chosen and researched for this proposal paper is the secondary source the speech, “General Colin Powell Urges African American Students to Reject Racial Hatred”. In this speech, General Colin Powell delivers a powerful speech about making a change and succeeding regardless of the hands holding you down. This is more recent than the last two sources and would help answer my question. Last Name 3 Works Cited Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "The Story of the Negro Retold" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1935. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/22885cd0-0840-0135-f475-27d3641d3140 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Hold Fast to Your Dreams" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1955. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/66ed6bc0-7874-0134-3e5c-00505686a51c BlackPast. “(1994) General Colin Powell Urges African American Students to Reject Racial Hatred.” BlackPast, 28 Feb. 2007, https://www.blackpast.org/african-americanhistory/1994-general-colin-powell-urges-african-american-students-reject-racial-hatred/.
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