Racial Segregation And The American Civil War

From the 1930s to the 1950s, African Americans were being severely persecuted and ostracized. The Jim Crow Laws allowed for legal segregation and continued control over blacks in the South. Those laws severely restricted the rights of the African American in the southern half of the United States and essentially continued to restrain them even though the United States Constitution forbid it. The North did not have such laws, but blacks still suffered. When African Americans migrated to the North, they were disillusioned by the fact that they were still not equal. The African Americans were instead delivered a subtler form of the discriminatory actions within the South. African Americans struggled for equality everywhere because of white

As I see in the cartoons, there were race issues going on with blacks and jews being slaved by someone who discriminates against employees. In the I”ll Run Democracy, 1942 picture the man told them to stay in there Jim Crow tanks. Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation. The laws let discrimination and segregation keeps blacks and jews from getting jobs. In the other two pictures Listen Maestro and German Manicure you see Uncle Sam telling the war industry to keep making the blacks and whites work together to create a good sound. which came in context when he told him to keep playing them. The German Manicure picture showed Sam going to get his hand cut off by the U.S. Nazis and Anti semitism means they don’t like jews. All of this was going on internally that led to these other issues.

The theme of race and reunion had become a competition for memories with vastly different aspirations between the north and the south. Striving for a reunion, a majority of American white communities close obscure the civil war racial narrative would only fade. In race and reunion: The Civil War in American memory, by David Blight, represents how Americans chose to remember the Civil War conflict, from the beginning of the turning point of the war. The two major themes race and reunion, demonstrate how white Americans adjusted and altered the causes and outcomes of the Civil War to reflect their particular ideas regarding this catastrophic conflict between Northerners and Southerners era. Blight, addresses how these differences in cultures collided in the visions that they saw America becoming when reunited as a union after the Civil War, reconciliationists, White supremacy and emancipationist. Blight does an excellent job of showing the arguments between all three versions of the Civil War. As the emancipationist image kept a firm hold amongst ex-slaves, it lost much of its white support and political power. Reconciliation became more about healing, allowing racial injustice of the supremacist movement to seep into the landscape of national healing. why do Union veterans allow the real cause of the war, slavery, to disappear from the memory of the war – Blight strives to answer. Through a culture of remembrance, veterans looked back at their experience with a sort of

After the war, laws were passed that defended the rights of African Americans, but that all changed with the Klu Klux Klan. Originally, “The Constitutional amendments were passed, the laws for racial equality were passed, and the black man began to vote and to hold office,” but, “The violence mounted through the late 1860s and early 1870s as the Ku Klux Klan organized raids, lynchings, beatings, burnings… As white violence rose in the 1870s, the national government, even under President Grant, became less enthusiastic about defending blacks, and certainly not prepared to arm them” (Zinn Ch. 9). Africans Americans were granted the equal rights that they wanted, but with the actions of the Klu Klux Klan, a white supremacy group, the US government began to back off from supporting the African American due to fear of more attacks (possibly becoming more violent). The African American also lived in poverty, “The average wage of Negro farm laborers in the South was about fifty cents a day, Fortune said” (Zinn Ch. 9). Not only were the newly freed blacks being hunted down by white supremacy groups, but also they lived in poverty. Yes, they life of some approved greatly and they were able to receive an education, but for the majority of African Americans, they were still living in the shadow and fear of whites.

Many people believe that The Civil War is just history, but we are actually still fighting with the political and social issues that people at that time faced. Abraham Lincoln used The Emancipation Proclamation to free all slaves in confederate territory, yet thought “that the only solution [to end slavery] would be a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.” (pg.368, The Americans) Therefore, the Thirteenth Amendment was born and although slavery has gotten better politically, there are still problems with equal rights and discrimination towards people of color. The stigma towards people of color is evident in the world currently, but also while broadening the topic, equal rights for all genders, races, religions, etc, still need improvement

In 1865, when the civil war ended in America and slavery was abolished, the African American population in the South faced many challenges related to their new found freedom. Following the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, white supremacy resurfaced in the South (A&E Television, 2015). Beginning in the early 1900s through 1970 there was a mass exodus of African American 's from South to North America. Although some African American 's were known to have moved from the South as early as 1850, there were two major waves during the 1900s (A&E, 2015; Gates, Jr., 2013).

The Civil War between the Union and Confederate Army ended in 1865, and with it ended slavery in America. Unfortunately, discrimination was very much alive after the war. To explain, the government issued the Jim Crow Laws. These laws regulated African American rights by the process of decreasing their voice in

The Civil War acted as the catalyst for change for African Americans. The war was fought between the Northern States (Union) and Southern States (Confederates) of the United States. The war was fought on many fronts, one of which was how to deal with slavery. The North advocated for total eradication and the South wanted to retain their slave ownership. The North prevailed and “President Abraham Lincoln offered his conciliatory plan for reunification of the United States with his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.” This victory held special significance for the African Americans as it signaled the start of a new era.

At the heart of the problem was segregation. Segregation is the act of separating a certain person or faction from the main group. In America’s case segregation was practiced on minorities such as African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians. The full force of segregation was brought down on African-Americans. Segregation was based on shear hatred of blacks by white Americans. The majority of them derived their hatred for African-Americans from their

While the emancipation proclamation was created to mainly announce the solidarity of the Union against slavery, it also became a symbol of hope for black people, who for many years were subjected to the maltreatment and prejudices by their fellow man. This was evident in the inequalities of black soldiers within the Union army, in which it was still commonly complacent during the Civil War. The Union’s practices of denying black soldiers the opportunity of a commission as an officer, paying them less than their fellow white counterparts, allowing them to face harsher treatment as prisoners of war and most profoundly was the segregation of black soldiers from the rest of the Army; were just a few incidents that gave proof that African Americans were still not considered an equal.

During the Civil War, Georgia seceded from the United States and joined the Confederacy. In 1865, the Confederacy collapsed and the Civil War came to an end. Following the Civil War, the city of Atlanta was destroyed. Despite the political and socioeconomic struggles during the Reconstruction Era, Atlanta began rebuilding and became an up-and-coming metropolitan city where both whites and African-Americans could live together, “The white man and the negro have lived together in this city more peacefully and in better spirit than in any other city, in either the North or South.” As Atlanta’s economy was growing, so was its population. Atlanta began to experience a high influx of African-American migrants from surrounding states, and an increase in tensions between whites and African-Americans began to grow. As African-Americans obtained rights, competition amongst whites and blacks increased and tensions only further escalated between the two groups. In September of 1906, the racial hostility between whites and African-Americans resulted in a violent race riot. Although Atlanta was once the city where whites and blacks could live together in racial harmony, the Atlanta Race Riots of 1906 changed the relationship between the two groups.

In the historical backdrop of the United States, African Americans have dependable been victimized. When Africans first came to America, they had no choice but to be slaves. The progressed toward becoming slaves to the rich, covetous, lethargic Americans. African Americans had given no compensation and regularly whipped and beaten. They battled for their opportunity, yet when the Civil War came African Americans had this logic that if they were to join the Civil War they could liberate all slaves. However, their chance of becoming soldiers and battling in the Civil War was not an easy process. Likewise, they were criticized for not being the right group of people to join the war. With the criticism, they receive they never give up. Having

In 1940, war industrialists started to transform California bringing ship buildings a long Richmond, Vallejo, and Oakland. This represented attractive opportunities for both skilled and unskilled workers in which foreigners and Americans were involved. Racial discrimination was part of this industrialization, which provided painful barriers for women in this epoch. As Lemke said, “As wartime labor demands grew gender and racial barriers to industrial employment fell, providing unprecedented economic opportunities for black and female workers.” (Lemke, 50) African American were massive excluded from skilled and high-paying jobs because white people were afraid and saw blacks as a competition for city services’ jobs. The war highlighted racial tensions all over the country but mostly in the South.

The illusion that Racism is the same creates disturbing comments when discussing current events. Racism is defined as someone who believes their race is the superior race. The current events with the confederate flags has brought about conversation that these people are racist. This term is correct but misused when discussing the context for the choice of words. Society believes these individuals are racist because displaying the flag is assumed to display hatred. These people who proudly display the confederate flag are racist because they believe the white race is the supreme race. There is nothing wrong with that idea and they have that right to that opinion. Our government is built on the principle of freedom of speech and we can’t apply this natural right to a one way street.

Despite the significant advancement of human rights since the abolition of slavery, segregation policies, such as the Jim Crow laws, still denied basic human rights to African Americans between 1877 and the 1950s. Under these laws, the status of African Americans was defined under what was known as the Black Codes, which “acknowledged...but limited” certain rights that they were given “in all aspects of public life” (Benson 1378). During the implementation of these policies, communities were almost completely separated by race regarding daily and public affairs: the use of transportation, bathrooms, water fountains; education; using businesses’ services and purchasing products. Most businesses owned by African Americans were inferior to others, and the public facilities designated to them were always less expensive to maintain and at a much lower quality. However