Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

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And the treatment that African-Americans were subjected to continued for almost a century, and still continues today in many forms, even if not to the same degree or as frequently as in the past.

Wells and the campaign against lynching in the 1890s, Fairclough chronicles the tradition of protest that led to the formation of the NAACP, Booker T.

Subscribe to The Positivity Newsletter and get weekly tips on happiness, self-esteem and plenty more. A must read for the rising generation of young people for whom the Civil Rights Movement has been relegated to ancient history. And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen. What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

That said, failing to consider the important role of philosophical ideas in guiding the actors of history is a ubiquitous mistake in today’s cultural and intellectual milieu. Traces the history of the African-American struggle for racial equality, from the anti-lynching campaign launched by Ida B. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. A good deal of this history is focussed on the personalities that stood out in black history, from militants such as the forthright campaigner against lynching Ida B. Fairclough is a qualified expert in the field of American History, but specializes in the Civil Rights Movement. Fairclough succeeds in making his introduction to the struggle for black equality accessible to the general reader in two ways. High school lessons have made it seem as though Reconstruction bettered the lives of African Americans, but in this book we learn that the struggle for equality wasn't and still isn't quite so easy.