History about Africana Studies

Under the Boardwalk; the Monopoly Story is a movie produced by Kevin Tostado. The movie is based on a board game that got introduced in the US during the early years of the 1900s. The game soon gained notoriety as it was themed on the economic hurdles and the human rights, especially those of the women and the minorities of the black communities in the Southern States. While it is true that the amendments to the US constitution have long been passed during the later years of the previous century, many whites still viewed the blacks as slaves as inferior. However, the view was soon set to change, given the spreading popularity of the Monopoly game. It is safe to say that the game played a remarkable role in altering the fate of black community’s history for the better.

From the Under the Boardwalk; the Monopoly Story movie it is evident that Parker Brothers were inspired by the need for diversification of the market monopoly power. During the 1930s, the US economy and wealth was mostly influenced by a handful of minority whites. The rest of the population-- including the African Americans—played an insignificant economic role. Most of them were minimum wage workers in the farms of the filthy whites. But the growing popularity of the monopoly board game in the late 1930s and early 1940s inspired the rise of the civil rights movements. At the peak of the game popularity, Martin Luther King Jr. was at the Center Stage championing the freedom of African American man.

Many scholars have argued that the success of Martin Luther King Jr. push for equal rights for the black community was largely possible as he utilized most of the strategies from the monopoly game. Whether this is true is largely open to debate, but it is undeniable that the African American path to equality in the United States got a boost from the board game.