Controversial Topics In American History

Over the last few centuries, the rights and freedoms of various citizens from the United States of America have been compromised throughout history. Racism in the USA has been a topic heavily debated over the years, from the beginning of the black slave trade in the early 17th century, to the movement that worked for the racial desegregation all over America. Although the black people of America have gone through a large struggle to gain their rights and freedoms, there has been success. These successes include the illegalisation of slavery in America, the racial desegregation of various facilities so they were able to be used equally and fairly by all American citizens, and the fall of the Ku Klux Klan and the illegalisation of their ideals

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.

Growing up in the United States, racism is an issue one cannot help but hear about at one point or another. Racial inequality and discrimination is a topic that comes up every February with Black History Month, and is often talked about in high school history classes around the country. But that is what it is considered to the majority of people: history. Most students are taught that, while there are still and will always be individual cases of racial discrimination and racism, nationally the problem ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. People of color, however, will often tell you differently. At least that is what they told Tim Wise,

History, especially in regards to issues of race, is a repetitive thing. There are recurring events just with different faces, places, and circumstances consuming the individuals of the communities we live. Once where the black communities started to form their own progressive movements and make a name for themselves in America they are now regressing back to a time where justice for the black community only seems to be something we dream, hope, and fight for. Reading “The Fire this Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race” by Jesmyn Ward made me open my eyes to a different reality one that I think I tried to believe did not exist to appease the fantasy that one day we would all be seen as truly equals. In reality, we are not equals. We live in a world that constantly tries to demean people of

Throughout world history, there were many big events or wars occurred that changed countries and people's life. In America's history, there was one war had a significant influence on two races, it was American Civil War. American Civil War freed the Black people, and stopped the slavery system. But this was just the start of the change. The most important period was the Reconstruction period during 1865 to 1877. There were many things happened during Reconstruction. Some people against the Africa American rights, like Tom Watson, who supported black enfranchisement in Georgia and throughout the South at first, but later agree the disenfranchisement of African American voters. Reconstruction had two part: the Presidential Reconstruction and

The African American race and the events they have been involved in from 1865- resent day, have single handedly contributed to and shaped the race they are today and the issues they deal with now. There are six specific areas of history that had great impact an effect on shaping African Americans, their culture, the society, and even social status to date. These events include The Civil War, this marked the beginning of freedom for blacks or so they thought. It directly relates to and shows how blacks were given something or promised a way of life but treated completely different. It also sparked all types of injustices one being segregation and the long standing feud between southern and Northern whites.

When speaking of politicians we have to look at the local and federal officials. We are living in a world today as to where other countries have lost assurance in our federal government. It’s evident that we now live in a world of chaos faced with a lot of different controversial issues. A vast part of this reason is due to decisions made by our politicians. A typical example is the inadequacy of health care this has been a huge controversial topic that affects millions of people. Children and adults lack in health care while many families struggle to earn a living and America’s families are being denied the chance to achieve the American Dream. The Bible teaches us to respect our parents, the elderly and those placed in authority. Therefore

One-hundred years before it was socially acceptable for white people to own people with dark skin, forcing them to partake in grueling, harsh physical labor. Then the abolitionist movement came and changed the ethics and morals of those ideas that were viewed as acceptable at the time. African-Americans were freed, but were still limited in rights. After many protests and many acts that would now be considered hate crimes, they were given equal rights. In a relatively short period of one hundred-fifty years, African Americans went from being treated as if they were work-horses or pigs, to being treated as normal American citizens, and the ethics of how African Americans are treated all changed, and if people treat African Americans in such a way again, it would be considered unconstitutional and a hate crime, showing how much ethics

From Reconstruction through the end of the 1920s, there were multiple encounters of people from all different types of races that have dramatically changed the face of the United States. Old immigrates, White Anglo Saxton Protestants, were the only people who were thought of as true Americans and not outsiders at the time. The 13th amendment abolished the majority of slavery and African American hoped to be finally freed after years of bondage. However, this is far from the end of their issues and there are many more racial barriers to be crossed from not only African Americans, but also for others coming into the country.

Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution were historical milestones in which the ever controversial topic of racial equality was first challenged. In theory, these two movements laid the groundwork for a racially equal United States of America. A country in which every member, regardless of skin color, or race were to be treated equally under the eyes of the law and to one day be treated as equals within all realms of society. As historic and powerful as these movements were, they did

Race has divided this county since the days of our founders. Blacks were deemed to be less than a white man. Our country has fought for the rights, or against the rights, of blacks. It is not until contemporary America when blacks have the ‘opportunity’ to compete with the white man. Admittedly, blacks are still treated

“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden” (Desmond Tutu). America is truly shaped by human experiences. From The Triangle Trade, to our Founding Fathers owning slaves, to the Civil War, to Civil Rights Movement, and finally to today. Racism has led to a great deal of impaction on the United States. One event that rocked our nation would be the Scottsboro trials in the 1930’s. The Scottsboro case tragedy changed America because for the first time it was made public, heightened the nation's emotions and whites Southerners felt threatened by the colored and their advancements.

The Controversial Decisions of the US Government in History In 1804 the United States takes formal possession of what is now

This time is regularly alluded to as the Nadir of American Race Relations, which just put implies that prejudice was best case scenario amid the day and age of the Civil Rights Movement. Pulling together for uniformity turned out to be a tiresome assignment for Americans. Keeping in mind the end goal to move into the future, one must relinquish the past, and numerous individuals were not willing to forsake the convictions that had been engrained in them since birth. Racial separation was available across the nation however the over the top brutality of African Americans in southern states got to be knows as Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow Laws made it inconceivable for African Americans to be equivalents. It precluded Blacks from wedding Caucasians, owning eateries that served individuals of different races, drinking out of a similar drinking fountain as whites, for all intents and purposes isolating races on each comprehensible plane. These laws added layers to the weakening of Society making once race feel second rate compared to another. The entire reason for the Civil Rights Movement was to desert along these lines of deduction and takes an excursion into the obscure, which was solidarity. Albeit generally Jim Crow Laws were canceled in the 1970's for good, the thoughts, occasions, and emotions that rose up out of this out of line routine of this law still

The main issues of race in America were created when they were legally forced to be turned upside down. Within ten years blacks went from being an owned livestock to equals with their former masters and paid laborers with the freedom to do anything they could ever imagine. Not only was this impactful on the lives of these former slaves, it was also very unsettling for their former masters whose wealth was literally walking away freely leaving them with large tracts of land and no way to force their workers to stay.