Essay On African American Education

Ever since slavery came to America, the whites had placed African Americans below their social status. After their placement as property to white men that many leaders in the African American community fight for their rights as a free man. Throughout the years, the black identity had many issues that struggle for equality from their own identity, constitutional rights they argued with radical white men and the secondary education that many leaders of African American to prove their education they needed. In the African American community, many slaves had issues with their own identity with equality. For instance,”Ain’t I a woman?” written by Sojourner Truth who express her emotions with a passionate voice of “Ain’t I a woman?”

For example, Barack Obama who has a degree from Harvard Law school as well to address his colleagues with the “Knox College Commencement address” speech. He uses allusions about how centuries past ago of how America became a new place to live for the New World such as ,”…As a servant of Rome, you knew you would spend your life forced to build somebody else Empire. As a peasant in 11th century China, you knew that no matter how hard you worked, the local warlord might take everything you had and that famine might come knocking on your door any day…As then America happened….” (Barack Obama) to prove his knowledge of history that the education he has from high school and a degree of law to defend his client in a case from having the privilege to go to school with whites and other minorities. Similarity before him, many of great African American speakers had some education that was either taught by an educated people where live close to like Frederick Douglass or others like Barack Obama as to going to secondary schools after civil rights act that allow color people to get education. This proves that African American have their education they need to be socially standard with the whites. As the education they have the privilege to do so which they struggled to fought for in many decades as well their equality in their own identity and their constitutional