Book Name: Stand on Your Feet
Writer: Eric Augenbraun
Leon Howard Sullivan was conceived in Charleston, West Virginia on October 16, 1922, out of a little back-rear entryway level. Being on an
inappropriate side of the Mason-Dixon line, dark life in Charleston was compelled by the unbending racial injuries of the Jim Crow framework.
Notwithstanding the below-average social standing, it managed blacks, life under Jim Crow everything except guaranteed them an existence of
monetary difficulty. Sullivan, who depicted his most punctual beloved memory as “cruising a little custom made vessel in a mud puddle,” was
absolutely no exception.xi The enduring recollections of the prejudice and monetary filthiness of his early stages likely inspired Sullivan’s deep-rooted
promise to the reasons for Civil Rights and financial open door for blacks. After relocating toward the north as a youngster, he would grow up
politically at the high purpose of dark dissent and activism in the twentieth century.
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In the north, Sullivan would run into a few illuminating presences
of the Civil Rights time, at last gaining himself the notoriety for being a robust of Civil Rights in the two his embraced home of Philadelphia and
over the United States. Also, the foundation of maybe his most noteworthy endeavor – the Opportunities Industrialization Center – at the beginning of
the Black Power period in 1964, spoke to Sullivan’s very own handy utilization exceptional strain of Black Power thought. This section will along
these lines follow Sullivan’s own, political, and scholarly history from his beginnings to the establishment of OIC with an end goal to all the more
likely comprehend the ideological inceptions of the program.
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In following Sullivan’s excursion from the Jim Crow
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this section will give specific consideration to the setting in which his political thoughts were molded. In 1940s Harlem, for example, Sullivan’s
first stop in the wake of leaving the South, he created significant associations with eminent Civil Rights pioneers Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
furthermore, A. Philip Randolph and got associated with the blossoming northern dissent development, of which Harlem was a focal point. This
experience would significantly affect the resulting advancement of his political idea. In arranging Sullivan among other significant masterminds at
that point, I will endeavor to understand his political idea as it identified with that of his peers.
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Among the inquiries that this part will endeavor to
answer are: Where did Sullivan’s idea on methodologies for accomplishing Civil Rights and battling destitution fit inside a snare of talk on that subject
in dark governmental issues and American political ideas all the more comprehensively? In what ways did Sullivan’s idea cover with or wander
from that of his peers? How was Sullivan’s way to deal with the legislative issues of Civil Rights and against neediness affected by his own class
position? Beginnings Sullivan was brought up in a ruined dark segment of Charleston by his grandma, who he credited with ingraining in him both
faith in God and a feeling of self-control. In the same way as other kids, in his childhood, Sullivan was unconscious of race and the tremendous social
and monetary obstructions that isolated Charleston’s white and dark inhabitants. At ten years old, in any case, he had an encounter that would
make him aware of the bad form of isolation and singe an enduring memory into his psyche.
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At the point when Sullivan was in downtown
Charleston visiting his mom who filled in as a lift administrator, he went into a close-by drugstore to buy a pop. Not discerning of the severe
racial code that banned blacks from sitting
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as whites, Sullivan sat down on a stool in the front of the store and was admonished by the white proprietor. “Dark kid, remain on your feet,” he
said. “You can’t plunk down here.” Sullivan would later portray the effect that this experience had on him: “That was my first genuine encounter with
extremism, preference, and separation.
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I remained on my feet; and at that point, as I remained there, glaring back at the enormous man’s consuming
eyes, I concluded that I would remain on my feet against this sort of thing as long as I lived.” xii The ten-year-old Sullivan would accordingly start an
“individual campaign against racial bad form” in Charleston. Knowledgeable in the Constitution on account of his primary school history
class, he entered a nearby “Oily Spoon” coffee shop and took a seat at the counter. After being faced by the proprietor, Sullivan stood and presented
the whole introduction. Sullivan’s one-man demonstration was a triumph. “Child, you can come in here and plunk down and eat whenever you need
to,” the proprietor answered. “Anyone who can recollect stuff like that has the right to be dealt with right.” iii through his youth Sullivan experienced
fast physical development and by the age of thirteen, he was at that point more than six feet tall. In the long run, estimating in at more than six feet
five inches tall, his physical blessings earned him an athletic grant in both ball and football at the close by West Virginia State College. At West Virginia
State – a little all-dark school built up in 1891 by a land-award – Sullivan included himself in various exercises past games, including understudy
board, the abstract society, dark history gatherings, the understudy paper, and the John Dewey Society.
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He would later note the significant job that
schools like West Virginia State, in spite of unsatisfactory scholarly offices, played in the advancement of a unit of white-collar class initiative that was
focal the system of the developing Civil Rights Movement: “These schools played out a marvel
Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Final Paper April 2010 Eric Augenbraun, College ‘1019of groundwork for social
and racial change the extent that the advancement of American dark authority was concerned.” xiv Amidst the elevated political awareness of
the school, Sullivan himself got prepared for the chance of a future gave to the battle for racial equity: Always, the focal topic on the grounds was an
open door for individuals of color. That significant concern won in bull meetings in the quarters, in the organization rooms, and any place else
understudies collected to talk about issues of the day.
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