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African American Philosophy
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass publishes his Narrative Biography, detailing the horrors of slavery and racism. Simulteonously, he provides hope for equal rights in the future. Could be called 1st black philosopher arguably. -
W.E.B Du Bois co-founds the NAACP
An activist for civil rights. Du Bois was the first African american to receive a Harvard doctorate, as well as the co-founder of the NAACP. He believed in the idea of double conscious, or rather how an African American sees onself vs. how society views you. -
Hubert Harrison Joins the American Socialist Party
Adovcating Locke and DuBois' ideas, Harrison saw the Socialism as a way of accessing black rights and equality via socialist thinking. He helped found the ICUL to further support "Negro conscious". -
The New Negro is Published
Alain Locke publishes the "New Negro", detailing his ideas about how African Americans should ignore the societal perception and focus on personal identity and education. -
End of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that adovcated African American culture, variety and independence. It helped influence the civil rights movement in the 1940s-60s simulteonously. -
William B Allen is Born
This African American is currently the dean ofJames Madison College, as well as someone advocating full civil rights for all forms of education. -
Cornel West is Born
West is yet another Baptist church-motivated advocator of rights, as well as a Socialist. He sees racism as abhorring and calls the Sept. 11 attacks causing whites terror comparable to the oppression caused by racism. -
Lewis Gordon is Born
Gorodn is considered the father of black existentialism, believing that blacks should escape the oppression of society and actually calls racism in line with rejecting that same society. -
The March on Washington "I have a Dream"
The "climax" of the Civil Rights movement to restore African American rights, an organized walk by Martin Luther King Jr. came to and summed up by his "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Malcolm X is Killed
Influential inovator of combining black nationalism and Islamic teachings via "bloodless revolution" is killed. -
Huey Newton Founds the Black Panther Party
Supporting socialist ideas, Newton saw the party as a way of protecting black neighborhoods from police brutality and discrimination under its Ten Point Program of desires for representation and equality. -
William Fontaine Passes Away
Fontaine believed in the a modified relativism in regards to ethical desires. He specifically believed in how if the black race desired something similar to equality, it was to be provided. -
Kathryn Gines is Born
Gines' ideas were similar to Collins in that both advocated Black Feminism, while simulteonously providing ideas on how to deny oppression. She sees racism as a political issue instead of a social. -
Patricia Hill Collins publishes her Black Feminist Thought
Seeing how racism also oppresses gender and the nation, Collins sees such as intersectionality. She sees the unique history of African Americans as capable of defining themselves and seek justice for themselves and social groups. She believe sin "New Racism" as the group of wrongs that still exist. -
W.D. Wright publishes "Racism Matters"
Wright heavily analyzes how racism has negatively affected the barriers between whites and blacks throughout history and how it is simple contradiction to liberty and equality.
