African Americans Research Paper

With Abraham’s Emancipation of Proclamation 1863 and thirteenth amendment that ratified in 1865, many African American were set free from slavery. However, African American lived in the Southern United States still was in the system of slavery. This happened because the South passed Black Codes laws which was including vagrancy laws to control those freed slavery. In fact, slavery never disappear and they just changed their name and shape. This means African American once again was trapped in the system of the South called peonage. The conditions of peonage was as worse as slavery.

The African-American people have suffered great hardships since slavery. During the 15 and 19th century many Africans were taken and forced into slavery. Some slaves

Africans have, since the early settlement of America, has had a great influence in the nation’s growth. These contributions to the United States from enslaved Africans have been greatly portrayed in American culture. Varying from cuisine, to song and dance are not only portrayed today but it has a deep-rooted impact throughout the United States. During the middle passage, enslaved Africans were forced to abandon their everyday lives, their families and their homes and forced to adapt to a new lifestyle they knew nothing of. However, upon arrival into the New World, due to their prior knowledge and wisdom from back home, they were able to quickly adapt and custom themselves to this new lifestyle in order to survive with the hope of potentially one day returning back to Africa. Unfortunately, African contributions to the culture of the United States has received little to no recognition and it has been taken credit for by Europeans and Whites since the early establishment of the United States.

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Historical archives discovered by Dorman show that colorism had tangible boundaries within the African American community during the 1920s (47). It is stated that blacks often divided themselves into four subcategories which consisted of “black”, “brown”, “light brown”, and “yellow” Negros (Dorman 47). The above ranking would be listed in a hierarchy from “black” being at the bottom of the socially accepted hierarchy to the “yellow negro” being the most revered and desired socially.

the United States against their free will. Blacks from the Caribbean and other areas of the world

Back in the early 1800’s, the color of one’s skin mattered amongst African Americans and Caucasian people. There was infidelity between the Caucasian slave owners and the African American slaves. Of course, the outcome of that produced a fairer toned child. In most cases the child could pass as white. The mixed toned kids got to be inside doing housework, while the dark Negroes worked in the fields, under extraneous work conditions,”their dark-toned peers toiled in the fields”(Maxwell). From the early 1800’s to modern day, there is controversy that light or bi-racial African Americans are better than dark colored African Americans. African Americans had to go through tests to see if they were able to receive priviledges

The reading touched on how the building of black schools was financed. I found it interesting that most of the financial contributions were personal contributions from Blacks and taxes paid by black while the philanthropists gave less than 20 percent of the amount needed. However, because the elementary schools were referred to as Rosenwald schools the contributions of Blacks were often relegated to the background. Although, the contribution of the philanthropists did not equal that of the Blacks we see a usurping of power in how they stipulated that, as part of their agreement, the school would be deeded to the southern local school system.

During the late eighteen hundred there were many poor immigrant families who migrated to the United States to have a better opportunity. As a result, many poor families ended up working on really terrible jobs with terrible conditions (469). To escape from the cruel reality of their horrible jobs many big cities had Amusement Parks where the middle and working class family would go to enjoy shows and attractions like the famous “Trip to the moon” (463). Many other families realize that is was not like they had imagined it would be so in the night they would remember how their life was back in Europe (469). In the night many people would look up to the starts and fall sleep looking at the window from their tiny apartment (470). Even though these tactics of remembering the past, going out to Amusement Parks and star gazing did distracted the mind from their work it didn’t actually improved the working conditions on which they worked so they were highly ineffective.

Each year, millions of American travel by airplane. However, only a minority of the population are forced to check their rights when they check their luggage. As fundamental that citizens should be able to reach their destination with their privacy and other civil liberties intact, it is becoming increasingly harder. Being asked to remove your shoes and walk through a metal detector is nothing compared to what women — and some men — with natural hair have been forced to endure.

I am a free African American who is looking to have some rights in the newly founded country of America. I believe that I deserve some rights because if slave owner were to catch me he could make me a slave again just because I don't have any way to prove it. I also believe that I should be able to own land and vote if I own land because I am free but can't do anything with that freedom other than saying that I'm free. The people in this country also don't see me and my brethren as people but more as property and if no one has claim to us property than they can claim us even if we have been set free by our former slave owner. This is able to happen because I have no rights and no proof of me being a free African American. In Thomas Jefferson's

In the convention movement Black intellectals used American political theory to their advantage. Since not being able to get together for politcal gathering, they need the conventopns to move forward any kind of political agenda for blacks. Since blacks had no part in it, it was important to show how unfair the current political system was towards blacks. Blacks used a quote from Locke stating, "government is morally obliged to serve people, namely by protecting life, liberty, and property" showing that blacks should have the same rights.

Historically African American have endured a large amount of economic distress. Exploitation for labor for 400 years brought about turmoil. There was no land for the black people. They were not allowed voting privileges now nor then. There was a lot mind

During World War II, African Americans helped fight for the United States as soldiers. Many believing that if they did fight for the U.S, maybe the whites would start to like them and accept them as equals (Brwon-Nagin). However that wasn’t very much the case despite fighting side by side with white comrades, they were still not seen as equals. Even back in the 1930’s racial tension stirred after Jim Crow laws were put into place. The apparent “Separate but equal” law that would allow African American’s to have the same things as whites but separated, or rather much worse than the

The US society has a long history of racism against black people in terms of the social, political, and economic exploitation of Black people in the hands of the white. It is also an undeniable fact that racial discrimination against black people in the U.S society is one of the negative aspects of this society. The U.S society is among the major democracies in the world yet it seems that society has not been able to get rid of the social injustice that the white feet upon the black in this very society. It must also be pointed out that in the recent times, the trend of racism against blacks in the U.S society has changed for the better to a great extent, but still a lot needs to be done and into terms of the negative unfairness by the white people against the black. This research argues that racism against the blacks, in the U.S. society has deep roots in the past, it is based on the concept of white superiority, and the educational system, in the U.S. also strengthens this racism.