You have finished the rough draft of your research papers--Congratulations! Please share something you learned that you did not know before you began the research process, and connect that information to what we have been studying in class. Why is this particular piece of information interesting or important to you?
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I learned that W.E.B DuBois was the only African American founder of the NAACP, and the NAACP was created after the lynching of two African American males. This is interesting to me because I would have assumed that all the creators of the NAACP would be African American.
I learned that Langston Hughes dropped out of Columbia collage after only one year of studying to achieve and strive to become a poet even with his fathers denial. His first piece was probably one of his most famous pieces named "The Negro Speaks of River". His poems were so unique because he used words to lure the reader into bieleveing what he preached in such a calm but powerful way.
I basically learned about the paper process and how to put it together. I also was researching about Duke Ellington and Dorothy West and they to me are some pretty interesting people. They had a vision and they wanted to make it come true. This vision was about how they wanted the whites to stop treating them with unkindness and they wanted them to treat the blacks nicely and kindly. They thought that if you couldn’t say something my mouth, then maybe they could say it by music or writing. They thought that this was a good way to express to the whites how they thought things should be and what they ideas and opinions were.
I learned many new interesting things after the history paper. I learned that white southerners went very far for African Americans to not have the right to vote, they would even file false charges on imagined violations of law. I learned much more about the 14th and 15th amendment. While searching my topic, I saw many different aspects of the segregation situation, and how many different opinions their were on it. I also learned that it is very helpful to keep organized when writing a long paper!
I learned that the NAACP was involved in many cases such as brown v. board of education, Guinn v. united states, and Plessy v. ferguson. Another interesting fact that I learned was that the NAACP was created mainly by whites; 7 African Americans and 54 whites.
I learned one of the more elaborate ways of how Blacks were denied their right to vote. I've only seen it mentioned once. It was known as "White Primaries" where only Democrats could vote and only Whites could be Democrats. It's intriguing to see how the Southerners came up with ways to get past the law...
I learned that Langdon Hughes and Zora Neile Hurston were very good friends and wrote a play together. It would have ended up in success but one disagreement tore them apart and they were no longer friends. This is interesting because when two people can be so alike in so many ways just one disagreement can tear a great friendship apart.
Pretty much everything I learned was new to me. There was one thing that stood out to me from, what in my opinion, is stupidity. It is something that if I lived during that time, would've strived to change. It’s about segregation. I proposed my own topic about the differences of white and colored woman fighting for their rights and social equality. I realized that most of their techniques were the same and that if they had just worked together, the ultimate goal would have been achieved much faster than it actually took. Most people usually see the north as the good side that was battling segregation but during the suffragist times in our history, the north was just as racist and vicious as the south. After many of the white women from the North supported blacks during their slavery times and helped them, but they turned their backs on them and shunned them after black men got their right to vote before white women. They segregated their parades and conventions. The northern women desperately wanted to please the southern women (there were A LOT of white southern woman that could help them during this time) so they started to support segregation in their fight, only to please the southerners. Most conventions in the beginning were either white or colored until the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed. It supported both colored and white women, but it was still segregated. There was one African American woman who was very inspiring to me; her name was Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Ida was a very successful journalist and motivational speech suffragist. One day she was going to go marching in a women’s rights parade. She emerged from the crowd walked right up to the front of the line where white women stood surrounding a flag of their state. She was a needed voice and having her there was a good sign for all of the women. When the white women told her she could not march in the front she said, “I will not walk in the back, I will walk under my flag” and she did. No one could stop her as she led the parade.
For me, I learned that women had almost no rights and were completely substandard to men before the 19th Amendment was passed. There was even a law prohibiting them from working more than eight hours a day, which resulted in a small income so they had to stay married even if they hated their husband. I also learned that women fought very hard for the ratification of the 19th Amendment. They would protest, and if they would be put in jail, they would go on hunger strikes, not eating the small amount of food they received in prison. Women were treated even worse in ancient times. They were considered "eternally children" and the men "owned" them.
I learned that in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson legalized segregation in the United States. This is because there was a state law in Louisiana that if the cars are equal then there allowed to be separated. Plessy argued that the fourteenth amendment granted equal protection under the law to all citizens. The Supreme Court said that the fourteenth amendment gave equal political and legal protection, not social. It relates to what we are talking about in class because we learn about history though court cases.
I learned a lot of information on how African Americans were treated during the early 1900's. One main thing I learned and that kept my attention was that white and black kids were in a totally different state of education. African Americans as children were given little education opportunities and that means a lot because it meant there weren't going to be any later education opportunities later in life. This really does show how much some whites did care about the useless and unfair idea of segregation.
I learned that even though every African American during the harlem renaissance wanted to be treated equal to the whites, that doesn't mean all the African American's agreed on how to achieve that equality. I think this is kind of like what we have been learning in class because Mr. Lewis always says there are more then one side to each story kind of like there was more then one way to stop segregation. before this year I believed there was only a right answer and a wrong answer but now after this project I realize that there are many right and wrong answers.
I learned that there was an American political party in the 1850's whose agenda was to keep immigrants especially Irish and German Catholics, out of mainstream society. It is important to me because i discovered that much occurred in the years leading up to the Civil War that was almost completely unrelated to slavery the Civil War overshadows much of the history of that time period
I learned that the NAACP did a lot more than help African Americans in a time of great crisis. they would go and help each african american individually and make sure that they are safe unless someone or something had already gotten to them.
I learned about the significance of a Supreme Court Case I hadn't known existed. From what I learned, I now know that the case I studied really sparked the whole bus boycott movement. However, it really didn't get any recognition until the Clinton Admin. awarded the defendant of the case the Presidential Citizen's Medal.
I learned that there was a common message between the literary pieces of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. That message was to stop racial hardships and discrimination throughout the United States. I used to believe that all writers didn't have a purpose behind there writing. I just assumed that the great writers of our world wrote for the sake of fun. However, as i conducted more of my research i began to realize that every writer's novel has its own personal message, and whether its to one specific person or an entire nation, the writing piece is meant for somebody. I find this particular piece of information important because every novel,essay or any type of writing piece has it's own message! It's just amazing to know that the world contains over a million books with over a million hidden messages.Overall, the concept of one book changing the perspective of society is truly an unbelievable act that simply leaves me in awe.
The NAACP is the reason that black kids are allowed to go to the same schools as white kids. They heard Browns plead and helped him in court. This case was one of the first big casses that the NAACP won for African Americans.
I learned that Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, were both very alike. They wanted to send a message to the White's to stop treating them so poorly, and with a little more respect. They both believed that African American's where just as good as white's, and under their skin color, they were all the same. I also learned that Langston Hughes was discriminated against so much, that he ended up dropping out of collage and going to a new one. I had a lot of fun researching this topic, and this is just one thing i learned from it.
I learned that women really worked hard to get their rights. I always knew we weren't treated equal, and we received our rights after men. I never knew it took 100 years to do this though. It seems ridiculous to me, because it's wrong to judge a whole group of people like that.
Well, my topic was Women's rights. I had no information going into this topic, so to be honest everything was new and interesting to me. One part that I thought was really entreging was that women got there rights in 1920. They also held secret meetings, in a town called Seneca Falls, in NY. I thought these pieces of information were important because woman first of all go there rights to vote, and get a job, something they couldn't do before. Next was that women could never get away from there homes, because they had no where to go. This allowed them to go some place, where no one could judge them. They were free to speak about what ever they wanted.
First of all, I learned how to revise a research paper and how to make sure you are living up to your full potential and not just settling for what you know can be improved. I also learned that there was a whole other side of discrimination; people not only discriminated against African Americans, but they also discriminated against women. Women really had to fight for their rights, and prove that they were equal to men. In order to this, they formed organizations, went to countless meetings, and even broke the law a few times to fight for a cause they felt they needed. Women changed the way they looked and acted, to show that there was more to them than just staying at home and taking care of the children. This is interesting to me because when people think of women in the past, they imagine them wearing long dress and corsets, when really they fought long and hard for something they believed in, and would not rest until they accomplished it.
I learned that Billie Holiday was blamed for killing her grandmother at six and was a rape victim at 10. I find this very interesting because it make me realize how blessed I actually am and how great I have it when I could have as rough as a childhood as she did.
Through my research on women's suffrage, i learned many interesting things. For example, the 19th Amendment, which was passed on August 26th, 1920, was attempted to passed several times before it actually came through. I also found it interesting that after women were granted their voting rights they changed their clothing style from the skirts and dresses to suits similar to what men wore. What stood out to me the most was that the women were so determined to gain their rights that they went on a hunger strike and were force-fed. The women who were involved in the suffrage movement weren't only protesting for themselves, but for their children and grandchildren so that they would grow up in an equal society.
I learned about the KKK. I learned so many things because I knew nothing about when I started. I learned about all 3 KKK periods. I learned they are still active today. I also learned that the Klan claimed many important political figures were klansmen at some point in their lives.
Before I started my research i had no idea who the NAACP was or what they did. After much research i learned that the NAACP was a anit-racist organization, whos overall goal was to allow African Americans to exercise there constitutional rights. One other fact i learned about the NAACP was that the group was created by white people. This was an intresting fact because i would think that the NAACP would consist of many black people standing up for themselves.
two interesting thing that i learned is that there were more than one kkk's over time and that they wore white robes and rode on black horses so it made them look like ghosts of confederate soldiers. I find that they came back many times because that means that there wasnt enough being done to segregation to stop this klan from keeping on coming back. the ghost thing is also very interesting because i actually found that to be really clever on the kkk's part. like i know that it was a awful thing to do but i thought it was creative.
One thing I learned was that the NAACP started with about sixty members and is now an international organization that helps people around the globe. This was interesting because it shows how hard the group works to help others in need. It also shows that the NAACP has grown and been successful for about 100 years.
One thing I learned was that Langston Hughes wrote what he saw. He wrote the truth. He saw that African Americans were being treated unfairly by whites. One of the many poems he wrote was called Merry Go Round. It's about a young African American child that wants to ride on a merry go round. In a bus "his spot" was in the back. On a merry go round there is no back, so he is confused where to sit. He wants to know where is his horse to go on. This connected to class because it talks about segregation and Jim Crow laws. African Americans were treated very bad, especially in the south. I though this was interesting because there is no real solution the the child in the poem. He doesn't get to go on it and that's not fair. African American children probably didn't fully understand why the wee segregated and couldn't be with whites.
I learned that there were many things showing the NAACP advancing and not many showing them losing. This is interesting because we are studying a time where blacks almost always seemed to lose. It seems the NAACP would be directly connected to black's advancement, but they seem to be following two different paths for some reason.
I researched The Ku Klux Klan and learned that after they disbanded once ore in the 1940's an other man by the name of Robert Green tryed to start the Klan again.This reign of the KKK didn't last very long and ended when Green died a couple years later.
during my history paper i have learned that women's history is one of the most complicated things that ever happend. The way they were treated was unfair and full of tragedies. I think for me this was really important to know because i am a girl also and I feel like I never really knew what women went through.
Although there were many pieces of information that I did not know, there was one part of my paper that really stood out. This was that the African Americans were physically more threatened after the war then before. There were more lychings and lynch mobs, but the most terrifying physical threat were the KKK. I had never known that they started right after the war. It was really cool to be transported back to that time to see how the African American people really had to live.
For my history report i am doing the KKK one and i learned the horrible things that the Ku Klux Klan did to African Americans and immigrants. The would shoot them, scare them, lynch them, and more horrible things. I also learned that the KKK did not only hate African Americans but they also hated Immigrants.
I have learned many things about the KKK that was very interesting but the most fascinating thing that I learned was that 5 million people were part of the KKK during the 1910's and 1920's and that they were in the government. This stunned me because that meant that the government made laws and other things to help the KKK be more powerful. Also that the KKK had 5 million people help terrorize black people and immigrants.
On studying the Ku Klux Klan I learned that the KKK brutally attacked blacks to make sure they do not exercise their rights. To me it is shocking how just one Klan can cause so much damage in American history and on the human race.
For my history paper I'm doing one of the NAACP topics and I learned that Lots of people received of fair trials just because they were black. like this one case where the NAACP overturned a murder conviction just because in the original trial the jury was all white. This connects because blacks were fighting for equality and there the all white jury was being unequal.
I learned that the KKK actually started as a benevolent and charitable organization that only made money by selling life insurance. This important to me because I always thought that the KKK was a terrorist organization that killed anyone not white and Protestant.
One thing that I learned was that the KKK had three eras, each which was sparked at high times of racial tension. The first formed after the Civil War. The second formed after the film The Birth of a Nation was created, which glorified the first Klan. The third formed after World War Two, another time of high racial tension. This all connects to the post-civil war era we have been talking about in class because that is the era when the first and second Klans erupted. It is interesting to me because I think it is important to know what terrible things some people did in the past, and some still do know.
I learned that the KKK had three periods of torture. The first in the late 1800's that only terrorized African Americans. The second in the 1920's tortured many more races: Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and African Americans. I learned why they hated the Catholics and Jews, though it confused me about why they thought different people were bad people. Especially why they hated the way Catholics believed in the relationship between God and the Pope. They said that they had to believe on God alone, but if they were 'oh-so' Christian, didn't they feel horrible about the way they TORTURED others (maybe they felt it was the right and godly thing to do...). The third period still goes on from rascism to actual murders. It's unbelievable about how these people could actually sleep at night for what they participated in.
I learned that southern states would do anything at any risk to prevent blacks from voting. this reltes to what we were learning in the sense that racism was very strong in the south at this time. it is interesting to me because i did not know that there was that much hatred toward people in the same country doing the same things and going to the same places.
I learned that the Ku Klux Klan reemerged more than just one time. Before this paper I thought that the KKK has never been revived more than once. I knew that they got revived in the 20's, but not modernly or after WWII.
I learned that the NAACP had a major effect on the civil rights movement. It was involved in a lot of major cases such as Brown v. Board of Education. This relates to our classwork because a lot of the cases we study have involved the NAACP.
Doing this project made me learn a lot about African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance. I was researching during this project Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. These two men where very important parts of the Harlem Renaissance. Ellington and Armstrong helped African Americans to believe in them selves. African Americans during this time wanted to be like these men by not being afraid of the whites and to believe and know that they are equal and better then the whites.
During my research I learned that unfortunately, the KKK did a lot of lynching going on in our country. This connects to the information to what we have been studying in class because we have been learning about the Jim Crow era and how there were many people who fought against lynching. THis piece of information is interesting because there were so many people trying to stop lynching but for some reason the KKK and other people continued to do so.
My topic was to study the Women Rights. When I got this topic I didn't know much, but the one thing I did know was that the women got the right to vote in the 1920's by the 19th amendment. Something that i found interesting was the interesting and didn't know was the people that were so involved and helped a lot. They created an organization called the National American Women Suffrage Association. They held meetings, marches, etc.
one thing i learned in the research process that i found interesting is the things that civil rights activists went through in their attempts to accomplish their goals. People were beaten and family members were killed and any normal human would have given up but these people had incredible will and dexterity. I also learned that people were even arrested many times during their quests and not even this would stop them from loosing hope.
One thing that I learned when i was writing my paper, was that women were considered a mans property once they were married. I think this is awful because women are exactly like men, they just look different. Looking back at this time and today women have come a far way from where they started.
I learned that it was very difficult to become a successful citizen of the United States if you started with nothing. A black person would have to go through his white superiors in order to work his up in the world, and the white men weren’t very keen to help. This connects to what we have discussed in class because we focused on the hardships the black community had to suffer through in order to join the American race.
I learned a lot of things about the KKK during this project, but the one I think is the most interesting is that I learned why the KKK wore a white uniforms. They wore it because they thought it would make African Americans think they were ghosts. The KKK stroke fear in the hearts of there enemies.
My topic was about african american women and how they made a difference during the Harlem Renaissance. They achieved this in many different ways. Josephine Baker and Ella Fitzgerald were two African American women who played major roles in the Harlem renaissance through their performing arts. Josephine Baker was a dancer and an actress. She was very well known in paris. Then there was Ella Fitzgerald who was a singer. She was awarded best singer of the century.
During my research paper, I learned a lot about the Fifteenth Amendment, the rights of black people and more. The most interesting thing to me was the lengths that whites went to to keep African Americans from voting. White officials made it impossible for an African American man to access his right to vote with all the state restrictions. A common restriction that was used was known as the grandfather clause. This disabled anyone who didn't have a grandfather that voted before them. No black person back then would have ever voted, thus eliminating all the black people that wanted to vote. Another topic that I found interesting was the Jim Crow laws. Learning about all the different laws and all the different things that they applied to really interested me. It also amazed me how again the whites went to such lengths just to eliminate the entire black race from voting.
I learned what the term, "The Flappers" mean. They were women who wore tight skirts that ended at the knee, high heel pumps, cut their hair short like men's hair, had low necklines, and colored stockings. The way they would dressed shocked many adults. Their behavior was also very promiscuous. They would smoke and drink in public. Before the danger and risks of smoking were known.
First off, i didn't even know who the KKK was, what they did, and where they came from. When i started to read in about them, I wanted to learn about why they terrorized the African Americans, and dressed up in white robes and hoods.
In my research, I learned that women were not always treated with the equal respect that they have earned today. I did not know about the struggles that women went through to achieve suffrage. For example, women started off with no power so it was hard to work their way up by petitioning and marching. I also didn't know anything about the 19th amendment. We haven't gotten there in class yet, but we did learn about other amendments, and I don't know very much about government topics. Now I know that it gave women the right to vote and inspired women everywhere. I think that is information is interesting because it was something that had never crossed my mind before I chose the topic. It really made me think hard.
I learned that the KKK had three different stages of power. The first took place in the 1860s. The second took place in the 1920s and is believed to be the most powerful of all the stages since it had the biggest population during that time. The third and last period of the KKK is actually still around today. I found this to be interesting because I always thought the KKK had just one main stage but it turned out they actually had three.
I learned a lot about the Klu Klux Klan over the course of the paper.The thing that truly surprised me about the Klu Klux Klan was that their activities, at first, were not violent. This was hard to believe because the Klu Klu Klan did such awful things and for them not to have been completely violent at any point in time during their history is shocking,I can connect this information to the things we are learning.For example, In the case of Plessy vs Ferguson, Plessy was non violent in his attempts to stop segregation.
I learned that the chain of 3events leading up to the 19th amendment started with Kentucky giving women the right to vote in school elections. This is interesting to me because it proves that even the smallest of changes in a small community can make a big change in a large area.
The topic I chose to research was W.E.B Du Bois. I decided to create an argument on how he was the most influential civil rights activist of his time. Before the research paper I did not know much about W.E.B Du Bois except for the fact that he was a writer in the early 1900's. Over the course of the research paper I learned other very interesting facts and that he has achieved many things. His accomplishments include being the first valedictorian of his high school to being one of the founders of the NAACP. The facts that I learned about W.E.B Du Bois are important because he helped shape history and he deserves recognition. The world we live in today is the world he dreamed and strived for. Without him life might not be as grand as it is.
I learned when the women's suffrage amendment aka the 19th amendment was passed which was in 1919. Also I learned what the term the "Flappers" were. They were women who wore tight skirts that ended at the knee, high heels, low necklines, and smoked and drank in public. It was women's way dealing with rejection to society.
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