Black Founding Father

As seen through many moments in history division can transcend to unity of a particular of group. During slavery some of the enslaved formed a bond and an unwritten pact that they would stick together, and many of them escaped. During segregation the excluded and ostracized commenced the Civil Rights movement. Thus, no matter how much one tries to divide groups unity will appear in some form. A journalist and historian, Lerone Bennet, in an essay "Black Founding Fathers", exemplifies unity stemming from division. He discusses the implementation of institutions, specifically black institutions, branching from their seclusion from whites. He says that these institutions began to define these black. They displayed the unity of blacks during unfair times. He specifically talks about two people, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, who created the Free African Society. One day while in church Absalom was praying  in church where whites are suppose to pray. White men were forcing him to move from this spot and many of the blacks were watching. After this they all walked out the church in one body. Therefore, from seclusion came a body of people and the formation of the Free African Society. This black society established positive institutions including churches, and schools. Many of these establishments are still used today. So, if it wasn't for the unity that the black founding fathers established in our past many of the institutions used by blacks today would not have been created and change would not have happened.