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Can anyone give an example of a successful African-American in the Post-Civil War Era?
Whether in the North or South, doesn't matter. Have all African-Americans been thoroughly repressed, oppressed, and suppressed up until the last 30-40 years? Were there no business owners, Congressmen, ... no notable figures?
I figure there must have been successful African-Americans, otherwise, the European-Americans wouldn't have worked so hard to try to repress them. I'm thinking about things like the Black Codes and such as repressive measures.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Some of my heroes:
Louis Armstrong - (1900?-71) [he only had a rough idea when he was born] Cornetist/trumpeter. One of the most influential jazz musicians of any time.
Jim Europe - (1881-1919) Tin Pan Alley composer and song plugger who became the Bandmaster/Commanding Officer of the Hellcats Band (369th US Infantry Band), an all-black unit when all of the Army was segregated. The band was one of the highest decorated combat units in World War I. Lieutenant Europe was murdered by one of the band members after a victory tour of France.
W.E.B. Du Bois - (1868-1963) A great intellectual and a co-founder of the NAACP. He renounced his US citizenship and became a citizen of Ghana shortly before his death at the age of 95. (I don't have to agree with him to appreciate what he had to say.)
Frederick Douglass - (1818-95) - Abolitionist whose fight for freedom was probably more difficult after the Civil War than before.
Henry O. Flipper - (1856-1940) First black person to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Sadly, his rank never rose higher than Second Lieutenant.
- 1 decade ago
George Washington Carver. He rose from the most desolate environs of slavery and brought about what most liberated people just dream of.
His research on peanuts is legendary, but what is more important is how he stood in the face of NO HOPE and followed his heart, which was constituted purely of love and service.
I am of Indian origin but I put him at a pedestal equal to the great Gandhi, maybe even higher. I have never been so touched, moved and inspired as much as from the life of George Washington Carver.
- 1 decade ago
Booker T Washington...college president
General Colin Powell US Army
Adam Clayton Powell, former Congressman
Condoleeza Rice ,Secretary of State
Andrew Young,Diplomat
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice
He is the second African American to serve on the nation's highest court, after Justice Thurgood Marshall. Appointed by Republican President George H. W. Bush, Thomas's career in the Supreme Court has seen him take a conservative approach to cases while adhering to the postulates of originalism
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Toni Morrison
- 1 decade ago
George Washington Carver was successful and influential. You might be surprised what he's done.
