Essays on African American History

Throughout history, black lives picked and picked away at more freedom. The movement started microscopic and with small actions, and eventually turned into what it is today- an organization that refuses to be ignored. This ever-changing movement has all different types of retaliations such sit-ins...

Was the Reconstruction Era successful? When the Reconstruction era began it was a period of time of many leaders, good intentions and achievements. The goals of the Reconstruction era was to reconstruct or mend the social and political customs of the South so that Northern...

The American Civil War, and the events that followed is a substantial period in America. The Civil War would have the most effect on the lives of millions, most importantly in Foner’s claim, African American slaves. Foner’s book offers an in-depth analysis of American history...

The United State had to go through many wars to become the most powerful country in the world like nowadays. At that hard and long history, the Civil War and the Reconstruction were the names of those famous wars that not only every single person...

The movie fences is a movie that was produced and directed by Denzel Washington and carries many themes with it. “Fences” takes place in the 1950s in Pittsburgh. The movie portrays various themes such as family dynamics, personal truths, the power of forgiveness. Troy Maxson,...

Fences is a 2016 drama film starring and directed by Denzel Washington, based on the 1987 play written by August Wilson. The film follows a 53-year-old black man, Troy Maxson, in 1950s Pittsburgh who struggles to support his family as a waste collector. Instead of...

The play “Fences” written by August Wilson took place in the late 1950’s. It portrayed a challenging lifestyle of a white dominated society and the venture of providing for a family. In the play fences many literary devices and elements such as character, setting, and...