Equality for African Americans After writing my newspaper article on the NAACP, I realized that

In America, we are told that it is the land where everything and anything is possible. For many years, it wasn’t like that for African American. With many hard work, strength, and courage African American manage to earn the right to an education. To the African American community education became more of a need than a want. We’ve learn that education is such a powerful asset that with it you are unstoppable. You can do so much if you put your time and energy to it. Having an education to African American is the one hope for a brighter and better

The black race has faced many hardships throughout American history. The harsh treatment is apparent through the brutal slavery era, the Civil Rights movement, or even now where sparks of racial separation emerge in urbanized areas of Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit. Black Americans must do something to defend their right as an equal American. “I Am Not Your Negro” argues that the black race will not thrive unless society stands up against the conventional racism that still appears in modern America. “The Other Wes Moore” argues an inspiring message that proves success is a product of one’s choices instead of one’s environment or expectations.

Equality involves the perceived idea that everyone is created equal. Although this is a concept that is all over America, it is more ideal rather than a reality. Equality is the idea that individuals are treated the same, regardless of their race, gender, or religion. Since the founding of

Equality is something Americans strive to provide and maintain. It has become an integral and necessary part of our mosaic culture. Even now to the point that when people think of America, they naturally think of freedom and equality. People of many different races, disabilities and creeds have come to the United States seeking the impartiality upon which this country was founded. The institutions of this country have relied upon it, just as it was the created by the events in the laying of moral foundations. The expression of America's citizens plays an extremely significant role in the history of equality in American society. In the pursuit of equality and the "American Dream," people have authored inspiring

Today I have chosen two speeches which are critical to the growth and development that our nation has gone through. Two men from different backgrounds and different times with one common goal, equality for all. The Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” both address the oppression of the African-Americans in their cultures. Though one hundred years and three wars divide the two documents, they draw astonishing parallels in they purposes and their techniques.

The struggle for equality and the battle to have one’s suppressed voice be heard is prevalent throughout the history of the United States. The Native Americans, women, and even Catholics have all encountered discrimination and belittlement in one shape or form, which eventually urged individuals within those groups to rise up and demand equal opportunity. As the United States began to shift away from slavery, one of the most deep rooted, controversial dilemmas aroused- what do black people need to do in order to gain civil rights both economically and socially? Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Exposition Address” and W.E.B. Du Bois's “The Soul of Black Folks” were pieces of writings influenced by the puzzle that black people were left to solve. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois had contrasting ideas, but they both contributed a piece to the puzzle in hopes of solving the never ending mind game.

 equality – It means that regardless of our race, gender, or sexuality, everyone should be treated as equal and given the same opportunities to achieve their best.

“What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” (Coates). This powerful quote exemplifies the mistreatment of blacks in America as something that has been prevalent throughout our nation’s history and is still present in our contemporary world. Our national founding document promised that “All men are created equal”. As a nation we have never achieved the goal of equality largely because of the institution of slavery and its continuing repercussions on American society.

Equality rarely applies to Americans of color. To identify with two subgroups and be oppressed by society normalization only hurts the meaning of equalism. Throughout the years, minority groups have witness unfairness from slavery, civil rights movement and new area of the Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual (LGBT) movement. Yet, there are still heinous crimes and brutality force upon this community who wished nothing more but to be equals within society. We are living in day time where racial justice has become such an epidemic that the government has yet to take a stand for LGBT of color who are underserved. It’s an issue of equality. It’s an issue of equal treatment under the law,” Jonathan Capehart. African American still continue to face civil rights issue, just much so as LGBT population continue to struggle with justice issues today. What do you do when you are seeking justices for both as an African American individual apart of the LGBTQ community? This has become a rising social issue in today's society for many people.

Despite the fact that approximately 60,000 free African Americans lived in the United States in 1790, there was still the harsh reality that whites considered them inferior and did not consider them equals. While enslaved African Americans had essentially no rights, freed African Americans faced with racism and were barred from purchasing land, finding good jobs and attending school. To this day, the struggle for equality is still being fought (Norton,

We needed a chance at the classroom and jobs and open housing in okay neighborhoods. We needed a way around the hateful hearts of America. We needed more than freedom because a piece of paper ain't the same as opportunity or education.” (Stanza 4) While the need for affirmative action is explained, the author continues to state how difficult it was (and still is) because of the racism staked against minorities for centuries.

Equality, a social justice warrior’s favorite word. What does equality mean to the average American? In a melting pot like America, views on equality can and will have different perspectives based on race, gender, class, and even sexuality. Today, race, unfortunately, plays a major role in equality, especially for African-Americans. African-Americans have been on the margins of society ever since 1641 with the implementations of slavery. For over four hundred years, African-Americans have been fighting for equality, which should be something one should not have to acquire through marches and protests, but should be a given right. Even in modern society, many people believe whites and blacks are not equal. Racial stereotypes of

Those without the white privilege lacked the opportunity to pursue education. This essay explores the problem African-Americans faced years back and somehow connects it to their current lives. Education opens the eyes of many people to see through the atrocities they are going through and how to beat them. This is the case of African-Americas who were

The value of Equality is somewhat given to Americans in the United States, back when ww2 happened and now. In world War 2 African Americans were held to a higher standard and had to work harder because white Americans thought that they couldn’t handle the same obstacle as whites . For example, The Tuskegee airmen experiment they didn’t officially go into war for a year until Eleanor Roosevelts, the wife of FDR, the president had to inform the captains to have the Airmen enter in into the war. Also, during the war women were not allowed to enter into combat. Equality still is still around in today’s time . Women do not have equal pay as men or sometimes women can’t hold a certain position in a center job area. Susan B Anthony and Alice Paul had pushed for Women’s Rights and went through so much like jail time, and being threatened by people, when they were only just trying to put a point out that people can understand how bad they were treated.

Washington and DuBois both explain how African Americans are willing to work for their rights through the establishment of ethos in order to reveal their credibility in relation to African Americans achieving equality. The expression of the African Americans will to work for their equality shows how once they do achieve their equality, they will perform to their highest potential in turn helping the United States economy, and fulfilling the foundations of the country. Washington promotes his credibility by explaining the willingness of African Americans