Freedom Of African American Youth

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.

The factors of the effects of oppression in the lives of African American teenagers is the opposite of the factors in which that would produce “The American Dream”. The restrictions and exclusions of the government, history, and irrational mindsets has caused many African-American teenagers to depend on unorthodox alternatives for the use of spare time, making money, and the feeling of acceptance. Oppression of African-American teenagers has caused poor education, violence, gang activity, broken or dysfunctional homes, and health issues. Hatred is another major factor of the effects of oppression in the lives of African-American teenagers. Oppression is also the cause of civil wars, and a disunited nation. Oppression doesn’t just effect the oppressed, it effects everything around it including the oppressors.

African Americans weren’t slaves in the North but were they really free? The free African Americans lived in New England, Mid-Atlantic states and the mid west. There were 31,000,000 people and 14% were African Americans. The question is did the free blacks in the North have political freedom, economic freedom, social freedom, and religious freedom? The free blacks in the North were not truly free.

The 1960s was a very hostile time for African Americans, especially in one particular state. In Mississippi, only 7% of the African American population was registered to vote, while other southern states had about 50%-60% of the black community participating in elections. Though preventing someone from voting based on their skin color was unconstitutional, many towns in Mississippi made it almost impossible for anyone of color to enter the voting booth. Many efforts to try to encourage voting in African Americans failed due to the fear of what would happen after the attempt. The possible consequences for those who pursued in the right to vote was having their name publicized in local newspapers, losing their job, or facing the threat of violence against

Was freedom a real thing to Free Blacks in the North? Before the civil war, slaves in the North were characterized as Free Blacks, yet they didn’t have the rights they deserved. In the North, of these Blacks 221,000 out of 476,00 were ‘free’ in the North. By looking at the Free Blacks’ political, economic, and social rights, we can see that they were free… with restrictions.

During the year of 1865, after the North’s victory in the Civil War, the Republican Party began to pass national legislation in order to secure free blacks’ rights.

African Americans in the US have been through some of the worst situations. They have been dehumanized by white supremacy and systematic oppression. For example, from being slaves, to Jim Crow laws, to segregation, to oppression by being trapped in public housing and high crime rate inner-cities. The main focus of this paper is the problem of mass incarceration in the US. There are currently 2 million people in prison, most are African American men. There needs to be prison reform in order to decrease the number of inmates in prison and help former inmates lead a more productive life after serving time.

The main places freed African Americans had access to education were Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. As seen in the legend, while these states did have the highest populations, the state with the highest percentage, Maryland, was only at 4.87 percent, a strikingly low number. While this number is extremely low, this is still remarkable, that a state can be so slave dependent, yet still have the highest percentage of freemen gaining their right to education. A main reason for this occurrence is Whigs in the North were mainly anti-slavery, and so the free blacks that had escaped and found their way into Pennsylvania or New York had a chance to learn. Education was more easily accessible in the north, due to no need for children

Although many factors contributed to slaves gaining their freedom in the 1860’s, African American had the biggest impact because they stirred up debates, helped other African Americans gain their freedom, and fought for their rights.

I do agree that hispanics and African American struggles are sort of similar. Some hispanics had to sneak across the border to get in our country for freedom. African Americans had to escape from the south to the north to get freedom in slavery days. Still today the police target blacks and Hispanics, so they put them in the same boat. They talk about the poverty of Blacks and Hispanics, and crime are in both neighborhoods. African Americans and Hispanic somehow find himself in some kind of rivalry. I do not know if this is because they both are struggling, and do not want to see one do better than the other one. I believe Hispanics and blacks need to get together , and stand against the stereotyping of their neighborhoods. They need to let

Over the last few year there have been many cases involving the death of a young African Americans being killed in ways that fellow black people would describe as vicious unreasonable manslaughter. The case involving Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was eighteen years old, and was shot to death by Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer. (Bucanan par. 1) After the trial, Wilson was set free as the jury saw him as innocent for his actions. Due to this, and other cases where white police officers were let go after fatally shooting a black man, riots began to arise in different cities. (Bucanan par. 5) The most note-able of these riots would be the Ferguson riots where stores were looted and destroyed and police militarization was required to help settle the protests. (BBC News) The whole reason of the occurrence of these riots is because the black community feels the injustice of law enforcement and that the police force abuse the power bestowed upon them behind the badge on their chest. More specifically there is the issue of racism among the men and some women in the police force. And this is what people of other ethnic background leads to believe is the reason behind the unnecessary manslaughter and police brutality on black people. Like all debates there are always two sides to perspective. For the black community, the main point of view is that policemen are being overly and unnecessarily brutal with their arrests. And men

Within the US justice system, there is a substantial disparity between the aggregate number of African American men living within the society, and living inside prison walls. African Americans men are frequently confronted with difficult environmental, financial and sociological disparities growing up, and also have the absence of opportunity weighing them down as well. Many of these factors have lead to outrageous numbers of African American males being incarcerated. Furthermore, the prejudicial behaviors by the judicial community can also be included as a factor in these incarceration statistics. Digging deeper, it is clear that crime and punishment are multidimensional issues that stem from racial prejudice that originate from racial partiality legitimized by age-old observations and convictions about African Americans. The United States has an affective double justice system that has kept up the monetary and social chain of command in America, in light of the oppression of blacks, inside the United States. Public policy, criminal justice, society and the media, and criminal conduct have every single assumed part in making and keeping this stigma alive. According to National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, African Americans contain about 1 million of the 2.3 million imprisoned populace. (NAACP, Criminal Justice Fact Sheet) Furthermore, the history of prejudice, which is additionally connected to the historical backdrop of view of race and crime, has

The 1960s were a time of upheaval and revolution, in this decade America took great leaps towards equality as activists throughout the country protested and demanded their basic American rights. One of these basic rights, one granted to many Americans by the 15th Amendment, a right which many African-Americans did not have. The “poll tax was revived” in southern states to “to prevent African-Americans” from “voting” (thefreedictionary.com). The right to vote is essential, and the poll tax prohibited the average man from voting, as most did not not have enough money to pay the tax. The 24th amendment was an essential event in the 1960s--setting a new benchmark for equality in America, one that included the African Americans.

How did freedom for African Americans become socially, politically, and economically limited from 1865 to 1900? Well To begin with, during December 6, 1865, slavery was finally abolished. The only hard part was fitting in. socially, politically, and especially economically. What I mean is, whites weren’t too accepting. Everything was segregated. The schools for children, the neighborhoods, even the drinking fountains and restrooms at buildings where segregated. The last thing a white family wanted was a “negro” living next door to them. It was tough for black children to go to school. Kids from the white schools would throw rocks and wood and other materials at the buses. A group of white supremacists who went by the name, “Ku Klux Klan” showed much hatred to them. Some nailed wooden crosses to their front lawns and set them a blazed and would chant to scare them. Some even went to the extremities and would kill them. It was written in history that a bus carrying a group of African Americans called “The Freedom Riders” was bombed by the KKK. This event later went down as a big event in today’s history.

According to Webster dictionary one of the definitions for the word citizenship means the quality of an individual's response to membership in a community. The word freedom means the quality or state of being free. The freed African Americans at the time didn’t feel that they had the right kind of citizenship that they deserved. Even though they were granted their freedom from slavery, the freed African Americans granted the freedom of the same equal rights.