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During Garvey’s heyday in the early 20th century, people believed that races were biologically and culturally distinct entities and that the Negro race was inferior to all other races. he accepted the racial essentialism of his times but unflinchingly took on any and all claims of racial inferiority, calling on all blacks worldwide to dedicate themselves to uplifting their race. This was Garvey’s greatest genius: identifying the similarities between the struggles of the black people on different continents and unifying them in opposition to their common foe of racial oppression...
...major canvases of Woodson’s critique was the American education system. In one of his most influential pieces, The Miseducation of the Negro, he writes that it was not structured in a manner complimentary to the social condition of African-Americans. From the high-class educational institutions to the burgeoning “Negro” schools, the “Negro” was a nonentity. Thus, students, black and white, were “educated” to view blacks as inferior because they were not worth consideration in all the realms of their academic experience...
Carter G. Woodson ’12, the second African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, started “Negro History Week” in 1926, a tradition which evolved into Black History Month. He chose February because it is the month in which both Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were born...
...Rivers publicly defended Boston magazine after it was criticized for running the headline “Head Negro in Charge” with a profile of Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies Henry Louis Gates...
...time of slavery. According to Brother Malcolm, a “house Negro” worked inside the slavemaster’s house as a domestic servant and pathologically “loved his master more than he loved himself.” He contrasted this with the field Negro, the masses of the slave population. These slaves never got the benefits of living in the master’s house—the food, clothes, shelter, feeling of superiority—and they were infinitely more bitter at their plight than the slaves in the house. As he would...