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Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. This video discusses the importance as to how leaving the south caused the blacks to be better off. They found better jobs, education, cost of living opportunities, and less tension surrounding racism and discrimination. The Civil Rights Movement helped to open up a worl...

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. In this segment, Dr. Padgett discusses the reasons as to why the blacks left the south; racism, lynchings, natural disasters, and droughts. Blacks migrated to the northern and western regions of the US, in particular Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland.

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. Dr. Padgett discusses the southern migration where those who migrated there were forced to leave during the Reconstruction period in the south. During the Reconstruction period, 99 percent of the former slaves still lived in the south. However, they began to migrate to t...

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. Dr. Padgett is a History Geographer at Tennessee State University. He states in this video that Africans came to America without force and for agricultural purposes. Five million blacks migrated to different parts of the US, which is known as the Exodus Movement.

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. Dr. Hadid states that the topic of reparations is a question of economic justice. He relates reparations to the genocides and other war crimes and placing the question as to how the US gov't should be held accountable for all the injustices blacks suffered from.

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. In this segment, Dr. Hadid continues the reparations discussion where he states the legal definition of the word, which is to repair or restore for pain and suffering; payment for wrong doing and mistreatment. Dr. Hadid emphasizes the fact that blacks were enslaved from...

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. In this segment, Dr. Hadid discusses how reparations were a judicial movement rather than a legislative movement due to slaves legally being brought to the states as property. After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, nothing changed. Slavery may have went away, bu...

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. Dr. Hadid is the chairman of the Africana Studies Department at Tennessee State University. He is also a graduate of the University of California where he studied sociology. He is speaking on the topic of reparations and how the slaves came to the "new world" by force a...

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. Dr. Hadid believes that the hbcu's curriculum needs to change. He feels blacks are culturally illiterate and would like to see African studies incorporated more in the black universities. Enforcing us to learn of our African roots will cause us to know more about where ...

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. In this segment, Dr. Hadid speaks on the importance of keep African studies in historically black colleges and universities. He states that the curriculum of black schools is identical to that of its white counterparts. In 1950, 90 percent of blacks received college degr...

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07

Dr. Al Hadid informs us on how he attended an all black high school by the name of George Washington Carver in Montgomery, AL. He is also a graduate of Tennessee State University where he helped established the Africana Studies Department. Dr. Hadid then explains how the ...

Keiana Webb (Hist 2020-07). Ms. Berry continues to speak about the hard work of the sharecroppers even though they were poorly educated. The rural south in the 1930s only illustrated the struggle of a discriminated race. Ms. Berry wrote the book "The Tie That Binds Us" to generally state not to t...

Keiana Webb (Hist 2020-07). In this video, Ms. Berry speaks on the sharecropping experience. Even though sharecroppers lacked education, the struggle only motivated Ms. Berry to work harder to have more for herself.

Keiana Webb (Hist 2020-07). Alumni from Tennessee State who wrote "The Tie That Blinds Us" , Ms. Berry describes her upbringing in a rural community. She expressed her determination to become successful despite the area she grew up in. Ms. Berry also talked about the sharecropping system where th...

Keiana Webb (Hist 2020-07). Laura is extremely involved in the community; she illustrates her involvement in church in which she is Methodist. Laura even began a program for the homeless in which she fed about 80 people a week.

Keiana Webb (Hist 2020-07). In this segment, Laura talks about the influence she left on the Tuskegee Institute and the relationships she developed. She had the pleasure of meeting Dr. George Washington Carver and reflects on how he used to walk around talking to the trees.

Keiana Webb (Hist 2020-07). Laura McCray is an 89 year old woman who tells of her upbringing. Her parents, who both had limited education, both became educators in which her father had the experience of traveling with Booker T Washington. Laura attended Tuskegee University and received her a degr...

Keiana Webb (Hist 2020-07). The segment of the video expresses the importance of voting and how education plays a very important factor in having that right. The 15th Amendment granted us that right, and as black people it is imperative to exercise that right.

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. Africans enlisted into the war to fight for the freedom of blacks. Without the Africans entering the war, the Union may have not won the war. Because Lincoln acted so swiftly, he was able to save the Union, and the blacks won their freedom.

Keiana Webb Hist 2020-07. This video talks about the Emancipation Proclamation which was drafted in Sept of 1862 by Abe Lincoln. The document sole purpose was to free Africans from slavery; however, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments paved the way for blacks to be considered free and gave them t...

Keiana Webb (Hist 2020): The southern whites were halted by the power and influence that blacks gained; whites attempted to discourage blacks from voting and their political involvement period. However, they then realized they needed blacks as laborers. They made them feel as if they had a voice ...

Keiana Webb (History 2020): This portion of the video discusses the involvement of Africans in the political process. 13th amendment freed blacks, 14th made them citizens, and the 15th allowed blacks to vote. Black Reconstruction gave blacks not only a chance to vote, but blacks were able to hold...

Keiana Webb (History 2020). Dr. Mitchell states that the Reconstruction period did for him what the American Revolution didn't; it allowed the entire black race to feel free. Dr. Mitchell also states that before Lincoln could reunite the south after the war that his Republican party wanted to mak...