Charles Banks and the Clark Family of Mississippi

I Promise to Love Faithfully. You and Me. Your all I need. Here and Now1. Discuss the relationship between Charles Banks and the Clark family of Mississippi. By the 1900, black children received a small portion of the state's funds for education although they accounted for over 50 percent of the school population. Charles Banks influenced Mississippi and became a leader for blacks all over in 1905 to 1920. Being that Banks was born in the time of promise, he lived through the period in which many blacks dreams were dashed away.

2. Define the old Negro elite. The old Jazz musicians and Sportsman Like Mohammed Ali and Louis Armstrong , Sammy Davis Junior, Lou Gossett Jnr. Sarah Vaughn Now Will Smith Denzel Washington, Samuel Jackson oh so many now but do they call themselves elite or just well know and wealthy. The black elite in the South of the United States started forming before the American Civil War among free blacks who managed to acquire property. Of the free people of color in North Carolina in the censuses from 1790 to 1810, 80% can be traced to African Americans free in Virginia during the colonial period.

3. Define the New Negro elite. A term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation. The term "New Negro" was made popular by Alain LeRoy Locke. 1895 is indeed a crucial year. Du Bois, with a Ph.D. from Harvard in hand, embarks on his long career in scholarship and civil rights, Booker T. Washington makes his Atlanta Compromise speech and Frederick Douglass dies after having made some of the bitterest and most despairing speeches on "race."