AAS 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Premarital Sex, Anna J. Cooper, National Urban League

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: African-American Studies
• Course: AAS 118
• Professor: Ogunbowale Mopelolade

Document Summary

Conciliation, agitation, and migration: african americans in the early twentieth century. Double conciseness: crossroad-where is home,conflict-south states, and confusion- creative/black code. What role did black women play in advocating reform and in fostering progress among. How did african americans contribute to the understanding of u. s war effort in world. In this class, we would be engaging the following issues. The numerous conception of progress by different groups of african americans: Black elites, black women, black intellectual, black migrants/immigrants, members of northern black communities. The continued experience of discrimination by blacks: race riots and discrimination in military. Progress should be based on agricultural and industrial education and that would also solve the problem of the color line. There was no need to migrate to the north, the south was the commercial world of the. Menial labor is the first step to progress. Cooperation along economic interests would not infiltrate segregation.