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A 6 page essay/research paper that reports on how African American writers commemorate each other. African American culture has a long tradition of applauding and praising the accomplishments of distinguished black Americans, as their achievements have given both solace and hope to generations who still endured the sting of overt racism in the U.S. A prime example of this is Robert Hayden's poem "Frederick Douglass." Published in 1946, Hayden's poetic interpretation of the life of Douglass expressed both the frustration and hope of black Americans at that time concerning the attainment of civil rights ("Robert Hayden"). However, while African American scholars pay homage where homage is due, they do not do so with an uncritical eye. This aspect of black scholarship is exemplified by W.E.B. Du Bois' critique of the work of Booker T. Washington. This examination of both of these works examines how Hayden honors the memory of Frederick Douglass and then discusses Du Bois' objections to the philosophy of Washington. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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to generations who still endured the sting of overt racism in the U.S. A prime example of this is Robert Haydens poem "Frederick Douglass." Published in 1946, Haydens poetic interpretation
of the life of Douglass expressed both the frustration and hope of black Americans at that time concerning the attainment of civil rights ("Robert Hayden"). However, while African American scholars
pay homage where homage is due, they do not do so with an uncritical eye. This aspect of black scholarship is exemplified by W.E.B. Du Bois critique of the work
of Booker T. Washington. This following examination of both of these works will first examine how Hayden honors the memory of Frederick Douglass and then discuss Du Bois objections to
the philosophy of Washington. In reading Haydens poem "Frederick Douglass," it should be kept in mind that it was written in the late 1940s. The Civil Rights Movement of
the late 1950s/1960s was only a hunger in the minds of black Americans. Black Americans had served and fought with distinction during World War II, only to return to the
same societal restrictions and disenfranchisement that suppressed them for generations. In this light, Hayden begins his poem with a long sentence that speculates about the distant day when freedom, liberty,
"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to black Americans, as well as white (Hayden lines 1-3).
He describes how on that distant future day, the liberty enjoyed by black Americans will be more than "gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians" (Hayden line 6). On that day,
Frederick Douglass, the poet asserts, will finally be remembered properly. The proper remembrance for Douglass is not statues, nor "legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone (Hayden lines 11-12).
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