Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
African-American self determination refers to efforts to secure self-determination for African-Americans and related peoples in North America. It often intersects with the historic Back-to-Africa movement and general Black separatism, but also manifests in present and historic demands for self-determination on North American soil, ranging from autonomy to independence.
One example of African American self-determination in 1932 was the growth of black-owned businesses and cooperatives. Many African Americans in the South faced limited economic opportunities due to discrimination and segregation, and thus turned to entrepreneurship as a means of achieving self-sufficiency.
Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for black people. [1] [2] It is primarily, but not exclusively, used in the United States by black activists and other proponents of what the slogan entails. [3]
The third period of Black nationalism arose during the post-Reconstruction era, particularly among various African-American clergy circles. Separated circles were already established and accepted because African-Americans had long endured the oppression of slavery and Jim Crowism in the United States since its inception. The clerical phenomenon ...
Conceptual breakdown of black separatism. In his discussion of black nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the historian Wilson Jeremiah Moses observes that "black separatism, or self-containment, which in its extreme form advocated the perpetual physical separation of the races, usually referred only to a simple institutional separatism, or the desire to see black ...
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, in 1773. Born in the Gambia and sold to the Wheatley family in Boston ...
In his view, European-American employers would always favor European-American employees, so to gain more security, African Americans needed to form their own businesses. [35] In his words, "the Negro[...] must become independent of white capital and white employers if he wants salvation."
A self-taught photographer, he was the first African American staff photographer for "Life" magazine, and took photos of many notable figures in history throughout the years.