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Next, mers he University ProfessorChester Fontenot examines the life and legacy of booker t. Washington. He talks about washingtons early years at Tuskegee University and looked at his ideological platform which encouraged africanamericans to establish their own economic base while washington helped create many institutions for africanamericans such as the National NegroBusiness League, he also had opposition to his ideas, both during his lifetime and since. Fontenot also compared ideas and tactics of booker t. Washington and mgartin luther king jr. I made a statement in class that many of you disagreed with when i said that booker t. Washington was the most important and the most influential af ....
Selfdefense selfdefense. The argument is that celia while she killed newsom, did so defending herself against newsoms commission of a felony, the felony of rape or defilement in missouri. Here the statute that is key to determining whether or not celia was in fact in imminent fear of being raped. Lets read it together. Every person who shall take any woman flauflunlawfully and by force, menace or duress compel her to marry him or to marry any other person, or to be defiled, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprizsonment in the pen penitentiary for not less than five years. Any woman unlawfully against her will. How do you read this as applies to celia . That makes assumption that the woman in question has will in fact. I know that as a slave that they are no such will exists and i think thats why the court did not recognize herself defense claim. Good. So it is any woman against her will. I think one of the key questions here that the court must implicitly resolve for itse ....
Congress. Universityrcer professor examines the life and legacy of booker t. Washington. He talks about washingtons early years at Tuskegee University and looks at the ideological platform which encouraged African Americans to establish their own economic base. Washington helped create many institutions for africanamericans, like the National NegroBusiness League, he also had opposition to his ideas, both during his lifetime and since. Professor fontenot compares the ideas and tactics of booker t. Washington and Martin Luther king, jr. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. Remember we have been talking about booker t. Washington and some of you disagree that washington in fact is a seminal figure ....
Some of you disagree with that. So i make my case today that you can in fact agree or disagree with. We start of course with washingtons birth. This is the original structure, home in which booker t. Washington was born. You remember from slavery he talks about his Humble Beginnings and we said that washington is establishing his , kind his credibility of street cred as a black leader. In order to entury establish your credentials as a race leader you have to have been a slave. So at the beginning of up from slavey he establishes his street credibility so to speak, right . That he was a slave right . We know he wasnt a slave for very long because slavery ended when he was 12 years old. We also know that because slavery ended so early, in washingtons life, that he may not have experienced the full import and weight of slavery because it ended when he was 12 years old. We know before the import of slavery it usually did not rest ....
In the 19th century in order to establish your credentials as a race leader you have to have been a slave. So at the beginning of up from slavey he establishes his street credibility so to speak, right . That he was a slave right . We know he wasnt a slave for very long because slavery ended when he was 12 years old. We also know that because slavery ended so early, in washingtons life, that he may not have experienced the full import and weight of slavery because it ended when he was 12 years old. We know before the import of we know the full import of slavery it usually did not rest upon slave children fully until they reached puberty. So washington was a slave and he tells us some things about slavery but he also tells us that he had no bad feelings, no real, he harbored no real malice toward those people who were his owners. In fact, he even says his owner was not particularly bad. That seems to be oxymoronic, doesnt it . Be problematic, thinking of someone owning you, a slave mast ....