Freedom Of African American Freedom

African-American people have been treated unequally compared to people of European descent. For example, african-americans could not use certain public things like water fountains; when it comes to restaurants, black people had to go to the back to eat. Another thing, black people had to attend different schools than white people furthermore, the schooling was not as good as the others. The way african-americans were treated was not justified in any way at all. To explain, the african-americans probably felt horrible about the mistreatments they experienced. When they had to go to the backs of restaurants it was very inconvenient and they were basically being shamed and ridiculed all day no matter where they went. Some of them weren’t even

The United States is a immigrant country, which faces varieties of problems. The African American problem is one of the most serious one. Racial segregation is a deep-rooted social problem, which reflects in every field in the United States. For example, education, labor market and criminal justice system. In the aspect of education, most of black children were not permitted to enter the school, because the white children studied there. In the aspect of labor market, the black people 's average wages were lower than the whites. They did the manual work. In the aspect of criminal justice system, the blacks were easily in jail. Badly, their sentences were also more serious than the whites. In general, the blacks live in the bottom of the American society. Martin Luther King delivered the famous speech I Have a Dream, ' ' I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ' ' (1) However, it was difficult for African American to get the freedom. The 1776 Declaration of Independence announced that everyone are equal and freedom.But black slavery still occurred in the southern states of America. Then the Civil War broke out, African American kept struggling for land and political rights.

Freedom is not a term with a simple definition or interpretation. While the basic understanding of freedom is for one to have certain rights and liberties as a citizen, the American notion and application of freedom have certainly changed since its very beginning as a nation. A crucial part of America’s history that challenged the idea of true “American freedom” for citizens was the Reconstruction Era. Although the Union troops were pulled out of the South and ended de jure segregation, the emergence of Jim Crow laws at the end of Reconstruction facilitated de facto segregation. Instead of completely achieving equal freedom, Reconstruction ultimately hindered African American’s freedom with the emergence of the black codes that resurfaced again

African-Americans are the primary race being treated poorly. Throughout history, African Americans have gone through many hardships with being slaves and although slavery was abolished African Americans were still not granted their full freedom and they continued to be segregated from other races. African Americans hold many negative stereotypes most of which are not true. Due to these negative stereotypes, African Americans are most likely to be targeted by police and many other people for committing crimes. This is called racial profiling, and it is an issue going on around us.

For decades, African Americans have been on a racial discrimination and extremely deadly roller coaster ride for justice and equality. In this new day and age, racial tendencies and prejudice has improved since the 1700-1800s,however, they are slowly going back to certain old ways with voting laws and restaurants having the option to serve blacks or not. It all began with the start of slavery around 1619. The start of the New World, the settlers needed resources England and other countries had, which started the Triangle Trade. The New England settlers manufactured and shipped rum to West Africa; West Africa traded slaves to the West Indies for molasses and money . From the very beginning, they treated African Americans like an object or

Over the years, it has been a slow struggle for Africans to gain the full freedom they deserve. They have led many movements and protests to gain these freedoms, such as the Harlem Renaissance, creating the National Equal Rights League, and the Civil Rights Movement. By December of 1865, the Africans’ protests forced the Congress to establish the Civil Rights Act of April 1866, giving them their own basic personal rights. They were now able to purchase, inherit, create law suits, and own personal property. The blacks’ ambition for higher success and freedom in the late 1800s led to the opening of many black universities and colleges. They were used to train community leaders and teachers. Some of the first black institutions established during this time include Fisk University in 1866, Virginia Union University in 1865, Benedict College in 1870, and Hampton Institute in 1868. In 1864, the National Equal Rights League was founded to attempt to establish the right to vote for blacks. Frederick Douglass believed that until the Negro man was given the full right to vote, slavery was not abolished. Finally, in 1870, Congress gave black men the right to vote in the Fifteenth Amendment. The amendment quickly showed improvement in African American freedom. Black men were now able to hold office in local and national elections. Africans began serving terms as the speaker of the house, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and treasurer in South Carolina. From 1868 to 1897, 133 Africans served in the state legislature in Louisiana. Many Africans that were given the opportunity to serve in the U.S. government include Benjamin S. Turner, Robert B. Elliot, Joseph Rainey, and John Adams Hyman. In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance flourished, making many whites aware of the beauty of the African culture. Many people became aware of the African American art, literature, politics, and music. Many of the famous blacks that led the renaissance included the composer Duke Ellington, actor Paul Robeson, musician Lois Armstrong, and blues singer Bessie Smith. The Harlem Renaissance’s influence spread internationally, and positively influenced many in the white community. Throughout the years of the black struggle for equal

In the late 1700s, most African Americans were enslaved and treated poorly, because of their skin color. By the 1800s, some African Americans were free, because they fled to towns that allowed them to be treated fairly or they bought their freedom. Although some African Americans were free they were treated like they were still enslaved. Free African Americans did not have any rights, so they were still being prohibited from many things that whites had the privilege to do freely. For instance, free African Americans could not own land and they could only live in certain areas. While whites could own land and live wherever they desired. Whites had laws that allowed them to be free and live without limitations, while African Americans had

“Forcing people to be generous isn 't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.” – Harry Browne. Sadly the good humanitarianism would not reach Africa until some thousands were killed by the greed of the Europeans. Europeans wanting to explore Africa for their personal gain should not have used the excuse of humanitarianism to justify the true act of imperialism that was happening in Africa because, many European countries want to “win the race” of being the first to colonize unexplored Africa, Europeans saw Africa as having an unfathomable amount of natural resources, and Europeans wanted to spread Christianity and “save” the people of in Africa.

Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and because of this the south seceded and formed the confederate states of America. Shortly after, the civil war begun with the attack on fort Sumter and more southern states seceded. During the civil war Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation that freed all the slaves in the states that seceded, this was the first step to the freedom and full citizenship of all African Americans. During the time of the civil war and reconstruction period constitutional and social developments moderately influenced a revolution. The 13th- 15th amendments influenced constitutionally. Socially, Freedmen’s Bureau, Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws countervailed a revolution.

The struggles of African Americans to establish their freedom is a big part of American history. From the time of slavery until recent days, changes have taken place to better the lives of many. Names such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Jackie Robinson are names forever recognized and remembered by every American black or white. Many of those people led the way and instituted themselves leaders in the movement which directed everything that is connected to the life of African Americans. The biography of Anne Moody Coming of Age in Mississippi chronicles the many events she lives while enduring the harshness of discrimination. Moody’s traces her life from the age of four to twenty three divided into

African Americans understanding of freedom were shaped by their experience as slaves of the free world around them. African Americans only knew that the whites were free before them and wanted all the rights that the white people had, but that wasn’t the case. Even though the African Americans were free constitutionally didn’t mean they were free to the sense of the word. Free or freedom meant that you got the same rights as everyone else in the country, but ex slaves were still treated horribly after the civil war was over. African Americans wanted to go to school and eat and drink where they wanted to without a white person telling them that they aren’t supposed to be doing whatever it is they are doing just because of the complexion of their

African Americans have been treated unfairly for many years since slavery. Although slavery had ended in the U.S., whites were still being disrespectful and racist toward the African Americans. They still treated them like they were lower than all the whites. Just because of the color of their skin, African Americans were being mistreated. They did all they could possibly do to get equality for blacks, but they did them nonviolently. They never even once used violence. They did events like boycotts, sit-ins, school integration, and marches.

Even though African-Americans have equality as far as the law is concerned we have yet to be treated as equally as our white counterparts, African-American people have a loss of their own culture and are a repressed group because Blacks have less sense of who we are because it was stripped from our ancestorswhen the first slave ships set sail to America. – Ashley Fenn

So African Americans (AA) have a long history of discrimination in this country starting out with the idea of races. Europeans originally used irish and indian people as their slaves(at least the british did) and african americans were better than the sea of poor whites so than demand began(this was the latter part of the 17th century)The transatlantic slave trade took many aa away during 1525 and 1866

Freedom is the power to determine action without restraint, and it is the foundation of our lives today. Every race has the freedom to vote, go to whichever school they choose, take place in office, sit in any sector of the bus, etc. Around the 1860’s, Northern African Americans had freedom, but unlike today, their freedom was restricted. In 1850, before the beginning of the civil war, the population census concluded that fourteen percent of the population was African American. By 1860, 476,000 of them were free from slavery, but only 221,000 lived in the North. After winning the Revolutionary war the Northern states gradually began to end slavery and it was officially abolished in 1842. With all factors in mind, the question of just how free blacks were in the North still lingers in the air. Blacks in the North were only somewhat free in the years just before the civil war because they endured restrictions in social, political, and educational areas of society.