https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq "The Era of Growth within Black Communities" en-us 2017-03-24 03:19:52 UTC 2025-02-02 13:25:38 UTC hello@padlet.com jsymone2009 https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/162310730 "Against whites, yes, but also against them-the townspeople listening, their own parents, grandparents, the Ruby grown folk  As though there was a new and more manly way to deal with whites." (104) -

This quote is of Royal (Roy) who had a township meeting with Destry, and one Pious Dupres' daughters. The meeting was originally about concepts of the Oven but instead Roy began to talk about how deal with "whites".

This quote exemplifies how the Civil Rights Movement orchestrated a "new way" to deal with whites according to racism and segregation. 

 I connected this quote to the image of Dr. King's speech at Holt Street Baptist Church on the start of the boycott in 1955. 

"Amistad Digital Resource." Amistad Digital Resource: Montgomery Bus Boycott. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Apr. 2017.]]> 2017-03-24 03:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/162310730 jsymone2009 https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/162310750 "It would have been better for everyone if the young people had spoken softly, acknowledged their upbringing as they presented their views. But they didn't want to discuss; they wanted to instruct." (84)

(You're talking about No ex-slave would tell us to be scared all the time. To beware God. To always be ducking and diving, trying to look out every minute in case He's getting ready to throw something at us, keep us down./That's my grandfather you're talking about. Quit calling him an ex-slave like that's all he was. He was also an lieutenant governor, an ex-banker, an ex-deacon and a whole lot of exes, and he wasn't making his own way; he was part of a whole group making their own way./He was born in slavery times, sir he was a slave, wasn't he?/Everybody born in slavery time wasn't a slave. Not the way you mean it." (84)

The conversation between Luther Beauchamp's sons, Destry and Deacon Morgan and Reverend Misner. I believe that those quotes connect to the Black Panther Party because those who orchestrated the Revolutionary Party was tired of not taking action in the way they desired (i.e. The Civil Rights Method.) They wanted change but no-longer wanted to discuss, they wanted to instruct their communities on how to bring change within a white dominated society.

I feel that this quote exemplifies how the Black Panther Party wanted to implement change in their communities.

This quote is a representation of Bobby Seale & Huey Newton (The founders of the Black Panther Party)


This image is of Bobby Seale & Huey Newton standing in the street armed with Colt. 45 and a shotgun within the years of them founding the Black Panther Party in 1966.

Miller, Johnny. "Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton killed, Aug. 23, 1989." SFGate. N.p., 14 Aug. 2014. Web. 20 Apr. 2017.]]> 2017-03-24 03:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/162310750 jsymone2009 https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/162693126 "In the end, they made it to only four. Big Daddy, Uncle Pryor and Elder spoke endlessly of that trip, how they matched wits with debated preachers, pharmacists, dry-goods store owners, doctors, newspaper publishers, schoolteachers, bankers. They discussed malaria, the booze bill, the threat of white immigrants, the problems with Creek freedmen, the trustworthiness of boosters, the practically of high book learning, the need for technical training, the consequences of statehood, lodges and the violence of whites, random and organized, that swirled around them. They stood at the edge of cornfields, walked rows of cotton. They visited print shops, elocution classes, church services, sawmills; they observed irrigation methods and storage systems." (108)   

In this quote, Big Daddy, Uncle Pryor and Elder went on a trip to visit various towns that were predominantly black and thriving (5) in Oklahoma an (2) outside of Oklahoma. They only made it to four towns.

This quote exemplifies Black Wall Street: a predominantly black neighborhood that thrived on their own businesses, schools and etc.

I believe that Black Wall Street is also a representation of the town Ruby (In Paradise) because, Ruby is also a predominantly black town that thrived on their own businesses, schools and etc.

Black Wall Street: included the area of Northeast Oklahoma around Tulsa- Greenwood neighborhood. Greenwood neighborhood housed a variety of thriving businesses that were successful until the Tulsa Race Riot in 1921. 


The image below is of the Greenwood neighborhood (aka) the most prosperous black community in the country during the early twentieth century. 

"Spirit of Greenwood: A History of Prosperity & Perseverance." Tulsa Historical Society & Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Apr. 2017.]]> 2017-03-27 04:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/162693126 jsymone2009 https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/162961330 "Something besides the fist, jet black with red fingernails, painted on the back of the Oven. Nobody claimed responsibility-- but more shocking than collective denial was the refusal to remove it." (101)

In this quote, the painted symbol of the black fist on the Oven was described and magnified by certain characters in the novel. People were conversing on who should take responsibility on painting the fist yet no-one wanted to remove the painted black fist of a woman's fist because it represented unity, strength, and resistance.

The image below is of black women of the Black Panther Revolutionary Party at a rally in Oakland, California in the year of 1969.

Tillet, Salamishah. "The Panthers' Revolutionary Feminism." The New York Times. The New York Times, 02 Oct. 2015. Web. 20 Apr. 2017.]]> 2017-03-27 21:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/162961330 jsymone2009 https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/163303349 "Since the murder of Martin Luther King, new commitments had been sworn, laws introduced but most of it was decorative: statues, street names, speeches. It was as though something valuable had been pawned and the claim ticker lost." (117)

In this quote, Misner agrees that ever since Martin Luther King was murdered there was progression within the black communities.

However, with progression in the black communities comes retrogression because the signs, images and holiday to remember Martin Luther King transcended into being a "special" symbol within the black community instead of being a representation of how far African Americans have came and how far African Americans must go to implement change within the predominantly white society.

This image is of the Martin Luther King Drive street sign in Chicago, Illinois.

"Chicago's Martin Luther King Jr. Drive: A Road Through History." DNAinfo Chicago. N.p., 21 Jan. 2013. Web. 20 Apr. 2017.]]> 2017-03-29 02:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/163303349 jsymone2009 https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/166875031 "Oklahoma is Indians, Negroes and God mixed. All the rest is fodder" (56)

This quote is of K.D's uncles repeating the Old Father's refrain as they sat behind the steering wheel of their Oldsmobile and Impala.

This quote exemplifies how history impacts many generations.
 
Oklahoma was one of the places where Native Americans were forced to journey to after being exiled from their previous land by the government. However, African slaves who "escaped" from their European slave owners were with Native Americans during their journey to other lands, because they were their slaves as well.


The image below is of a Cherokee Indian with an African slave during the Trail of tears which was also considered as a black migration.

The individuals pictured are "unknown" 

Pain of 'Trail of Tears' shared by Blacks as well as Native Americans." CNN. Cable News Network, 25 Feb. 2012. Web. 20 Apr. 2017.]]> 2017-04-18 20:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/166875031 jsymone2009 https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/168536157 "In Paradise, Toni Morrison references historical experiences throughout her characters. Morrison references the Trail of Tears, Civil Rights Movement, Black Wall Street, and Black Panther Revolutionary Party. Throughout my digital artifact I chose quotes that exemplify historical references and connected it to historical images." ]]> 2017-04-27 03:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jsymone2009/bc4lnbyye7mq/wish/168536157