1. AFRICAN AMERICAN SUBCULTURE
Culture consists of the customs, beliefs and values, knowledge and skills that guide the members of a
society. It is the over- all way of life of a people. The total products of their society are both material
and nonmaterial.
It is culture that gives the human society its identity because humans are the only organism whose
social groups are defined by culture were give on lecturing day September ninth, two thousand and
eleven.
The African Americans culture has progress from the early eighteen centuries within the community, I
was raised. During the forth-six years, I’ve been on this earth. I have seen a transition with this town,
alone call Blakely, Georgia. I have seen African Americans excel from working on white farms,
workinghomes, back door entry, and a killing.
During the First World War, a group known as “The New Negroes”, were black inferiors that relocated
to Northern, urban cities. The African American migrated from the South into North, and Midwest. A
book called “The Migration of the Negro”, was written by Jacob Lawrence that enlighten society of the
first massive movement of African Americans moving out the South into the North and Midwest during
the First World War. This book covered material of black people excelling in their move. They were able
to vote, decent schools, make decent wage, and performed music/art.
In the fall of the early nineteen fifty’s, my great uncle by the name of Roscell Hightower escaped from
Chandler plantation to Augustine, Florida. My mom said that he refused to work on the white man
farm, anymore. Several months later my uncle, in laws came at the rest of his family. They continue to
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2. reside in Augustine, Florida at this present day. Although my great uncle has gone on to glory, he still
became a mentor to the family, refusing humiliation, being belittled, and accomplish self esteem .
Also during the First World War, this group of black men, African Diaspora, believed they were entitled
the right of American citizenship, because they were born free.
The Jim Crow era appeared during the First four decades of the twentieth century was a period when a
large amount of Americans viewed black people as inferiors, aliens! During this period, anti-black riots,
segregation, lynching, and humiliation were still governed.
During my teenage years, I felt degraded and humiliation, especially when I had to have a physical for
sports. As we were pulling up to the doctor office, I noticed that we were entering through the back
door. As we entered, a black nurse escorted us to the waiting room to be seated. As we were sitting in
the waiting room, I could see an entrance across the building where a white nurse were escorting and
waiting on their color. Throughout my high school days, this physician continued to be segregated until
the competition came about with integration of other physician in the area.
As the centuries progress, African American are continuing to reach the levers of power. American
culture and politics are being influenced more than ever. They began publicizing their own idea,
symbolizing “The New Negro”. “The New Negro” were better educated, more militant and powerful
African Americans. “The New Negro” considered at times nationalist that lived in the North or West
than in the South.
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3. The Great Migration began a crucial event in American history during the First World War of
approximately a half a million black people moved out of the South to the North and Midwest. The
European immigrants and soldiers of the North created jobs for the African American during the First
World War.
A newspaper editor, published a series of articles, “The Defender “ , nineteen hundred and five, the
articles were encouraging African Americans to leave the Southern area and relocate in the Northern or
Midwestern area. The publisher, Robert Sengstacke also set a departure date for all blacks to move
which was on May fifteen, nineteen hundred and seventeen. He called the departure day, “the Great
Northern Drive”. Sengstacke urge Southerners, New Negroes’ to relocate North and Midwest because
the New Negroes’ are more cosmopolitan consumers of national even international news.
The Great Migration continued to accelerate between the eighteen hundred and ninety and nineteen
hundred of the trend that already existed. The end of the Reconstruction, around the nineteen hundred
at least seventy two cities had more than five thousand black residents including Newark, New Jersey
(6,694). Philadelphia, New York City, and Memphis had more than fifty thousand black residential
homes, Washington, D. C., had more than eight six thousand black residential homes; Baltimore had
more than seventy nine thousand; and New Orleans had more than 77,000^2 within the next decade
Denver had(5,426) and Los Angeles (7,599)^3.
African American culture varies in different ways relating to the traditional of religion. African
Americans are known as having several gods; on contrary, Islam known as having one supreme god; the
people that were black grew up practicing Christianity. Around the eighteen hundred’s, churches were
rare for African Americans in Southern colonies.
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4. “Re Graweere”, The Virginia court stated that if a black child raised up as a Christian that could be
considered free, but the court ruled instead that the so-called un-free status will preserve the rights that
Christian Negroes will permanently be enslaved.
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