How accurate is it to say that the status of black people in the USA changed very little in the years 1945-1955?

There was hardly any change in black social status between being a slave and being a sharecropper. Another example lies with the 14th and 15th amendments. Both amendments secure certain rights of freedmen, but these rights were barely taken advantage of by African-Americans. They were constantly in fear of exerting their civil rights due to angry, racist southerners (Doc. D), and the extreme terror white supremacy groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League left in them, so they did not vote in order to preserve their lives and families (Doc. I). Plus the government didn’t enforce these amendments and protect the civil rights of African-Americans that way that it should have (Doc. H). Ultimately, although there were many constitutional changes between 1860 and 1877, none of them were effective enough to be looked at as a revolutionary change in the United States.

World War II brought several changes to the world and specifically America. It not only changed the world map but also set impact on the behaviours. WWII played a major role in building turning points during different periods. Before WWII, African Americans were not offered equal rights in the community. It was considered an impossible thing that African could ever do a white collar or even a blue collar job. However, soon after the WWII, there came a turning point in the lives of African American with the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

How far did US presidents hinder rather than help the development of African American civil rights in the period from 1865-1941?

In Spite of the devastating history of segregation in the United States. A lot has changed in the past fifty years since segregation ended. The United States shifted from arresting African Americans for using “white only” facilities to integrated schools all over the country. Influential individuals such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr helped pave the way for African Americans to live as equals to along with their white counterparts in the United States of America.

How accurate is it to say that the Black Power Movements of the 1960’s achieved nothing for the Black people?

African Americans lifestyle did not see much change from before the depression and during the depression in the sense of the capital dollar. They assumed the New Deal brought up by president Roosevelt at the time would bring change to their life, but the white public would not stand to be on equal terms with a person of color. “Unemployment was rampant, and many whites felt that any available jobs belonged to the whites first.”i Many white Americans did not want African Americans to be paid minimum wage, but be paid lower than minimum wage. Industry’s also wanted to pay their employers a different wage depending on the color of their skin. “Negro unskilled labor,

Hi Robert, Thank you for your post this week as it covered the pros and cons of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. One of the statements that you made about the 1960’s being harsh in the life of an African American reminded me of one of the rulings that had been achieved concerning education. In 1957, several African American students were approved to integrate with a high school located in Arkansas, only after the 1954 case of Brown vs. Board of Education had been battled and won within the court system (Schultz, 2013). This case stated that by having segregation between the white and black schools proved to be unequal. However, the white students did not make it easy on the new ones coming in and were said to have teased and tormented them.

What accounted for the growth between 1940 and 1965 of popular and governmental concern for the position of blacks in American society?

The 1930's was a time of change for the blacks of the United States of America. However, this change was not all for the better. The main change for blacks during this period was that many of them migrated to the North, which in turn, caused many other situations, which included

African Americans have been struggling for equality for many decades. It only seems that during the 1960?s is when there were actual significant advances made. This was about the same time that civil rights came into the political scene. Throughout the South, Blacks were still in the majority, but had no political power what so ever. The Civil Rights Movement gave African Americans a voice and a chance to make a difference. The 1960's helped open up hope and expectations for Black Americans.

The country has gone through many changes within that period. The question is: has the country changed for the better or worse? The answer is no. Hate crimes against minorities are still as prevalent today as they were back in the 1960s. They have just taken on different. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. clashed heads when it came to what they advocated, although they ultimately were headed toward the same goal. They just had different ways of fighting for that goal. Ultimately, as much as the debate exists for which method of rallying is better, violence or nonviolence, no one will ever know the answers. Through general observations of the world through the media, African Americans have a long way to go before they achieve the same goal the Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. fought

Blacks enjoyed the luxury of having some rights and help during the reconstruction, but after reconstruction was over people did many things to help put the blacks “back in their place.” For instance, state wide laws were ordered

During the 1950s, the United States was on the brink of eruption. Not literally, of course, but in a sense yes. Though it had been about a century after slavery was abolished, African Americans in the United States were still being treated as second-class citizens. Separate but equal, as outlined in the landmark case Plessy versus Ferguson of 1896, became a standard doctrine in the United States law. This was a defeat for many blacks because not only were the facilities were clearly unequal, but it restored white supremacy in the South. It would be years before any sense of hope would come from another prominent landmark case victory.

The 1960’s were a rough, yet progressive stage in American history. African Americans were finally labeled as equal to white men and women after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. However, that bill was

African Americans in America in history have gone through many hard times trying to just progress out of slavery and obtain freedom and have equal rights. In this paper I will attempt to explain what some of the important events of the time revealed about the role of African Americans in broader American society in, respectively, the 1920s and the late 1960s. I will explain how and why the roles of African Americans in the 1920s differed from their roles in the late 1960s, and explain how events in the 1920s may have contributed to