Are A Racist Human Being?

During the 1800s, discrimination against African Americans was apparent throughout America in varying degrees. Especially in the North, people wanted to find a solution to stop this inequality. When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment was passed in 1865, it was a turning point and ever since then more movements have occurred to promote greater equality for African Americans. Despite these turning points, discrimination still continued to occur for African Americans, and it has led to numerous historic and political movements.

No longer having to provide slave work for whites, the African Americans began to become more knowledgeable about the privileges that they would be able to have. They began to fight for the right to vote and the right to land. Among fighting for

After the Civil War in 1865 African Americans were finally free, but many did not feel that they had any rights due to segregation. It took several years of protesting and violence to finally make a change in late 1800’s, after the passing of the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Amendment. These gave them citizenship and the right to vote. Even after this African Americans were still being segregated and excluded from politics, so many new civil rights leaders sprung up to change this. The two that had the biggest impact at this time were Booker T. Washington and Ida B. Wells. Though these two were different in beliefs, they both had the same overall goal: civil, educational and political rights.

After the civil war, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were created. Which abolished slavery and granted african americans citizenship, and the right to vote. But it didn't come that easy to them. African

history, African Americans were given the right to vote. African American voice for equal rights was finally

Tracing back to the time period of the Triangular Trade, African-Americans were brought to America as slaves and were treated as the inferiors. Most of them were not granted for the basic human rights that they deserved. After the Civil Wars, the African- Americans were finally freed form the identity of slaves, but still treated unequally. During the 1950s and 1960s, the era of the Civil Rights Movement has occurred, which involved numerous movements that many of the Africans-Americans participated eagerly. Equal rights, educational opportunities, prohibit discriminations, and end of the segregations were the main focus of these movements. Civil Rights Act of 1964 was one of the most important acts that marked the end of the unequal application of voter registration requirement and racial segregation. The most significant events that led to the Civil Rights Act of

With all of this protesting for inequality the Voting Rights Act of 1965 came about to put an end to the barriers blocking the African American communities from

The past voting rights for African Americans have improved from 1870. The African American community had to fight and work very hard though to get these rights. They had to work though many things like jim crow laws to get their rights. They went from not being able to vote the first black president in American history. The history of the African American voting rights have changed a lot over the years but it was not easy.

Before the Civil War began, African Americans were not allowed to do anything at all but work. They weren’t allowed to do political things like vote or be elected for anything. After the Civil War, those things changed. The African American population helped usher the Republican Party. Many states elected African American officials. Millions of African American men were allowed to vote. Congress passed the Enforcement Acts.

was gaining prominence, was also a difficult time for African Americans. The vote proved elusive and civil

Slavery was abolished in the 1800's in America. This gave freedom to many colored ethnic groups in America. Now, freedom was granted to these people, but from 1865 to the early 20th century, these colored Americans did not get the respect and rights they deserved. The right to vote for most was never given up until 1965. Segregation was a major thing for these people, and even the right to fight for their country in the world wars was discriminating.

Congress ratified the 14th and 15th Amendments, giving us citizenship and voting rights. Blacks started being represented at the state level, and in higher positions of government. We were given land and opportunity to thrive (40 acres and a mule) and food, housing, medical and legal aid (Freedmen’s Bureau) and became true Americans because of

Before this, in all but six states, African Americans’ right to vote had been denied. With Reconstruction and the 15th amendment- giving all citizens the right to vote regardless of their race, now meant the Black men would be able to vote and the ban had been ended. (At this time no women, of any race, had the right to vote. With such a huge shift in the country, you may be wondering what type of reaction followed this decision? From what I gathered, the White Supremacists were not happy and a series of strategies came about to prevent the African Americans from voting. Such strategies included, were the implementation of poll taxes, literary tests, and … you guessed it, felony disenfranchisement just to name a few. (Safety and Justice,

[Editor’s note: The compiler of this list of definitions has not made any of them up. He has seen such people called racists in various books and articles.]

The African American welcomed any change. Although, the war brought no real changes for them. After the war, their fear and anger intensified and black veterans came home tired of the oppression and ill treatment and set out to protest them. They were ready to fight back for equality. Black in the south was speaking up and as a result, Alabama threaten the secession over granting equal rights to blacks. In New Jersey and Washington bus companies refused to hire black drivers and the Navy begin their own set of discriminative practices. These are just a few of the events that would eventually lead to the Civil Rights Movement.