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The United States’ treatment of African Americans has changed tremendously since the country’s founding up until now. African Americans were first introduced to the country in one of the harshest manners possible. They were brought over on tightly compacted slave ships and then forced into hard labor for the entirety of their lives. This went on for centuries until African Americans were finally given their freedom after the Civil War. Albeit this was much better than slavery, citizenship came with many troubles of its own. The years following the Civil War, known as the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, would prove to be, aside from slavery, some of the hardest times for African Americans in all of U.S. history.

African Americans were always thought to be inferior to the white supremacy in the United States. Although the Civil War had abolished slavery, blacks were still very ill-treated. Blacks were to not associate with the white society. They were banned from restaurants, bathrooms, parks, schools, hospitals, and much more. Whites constantly abused the blacks to the point that African American life expectancy was 7 years less compared to the whites (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/). Society believed that a black could cause something to lose value for example “property values would drop a great deal if an African American family moved into a neighborhood that was not considered a ghetto”. African Americans began to stand up against the racial

America’s society has been built on racial beliefs. As much as we believe that America is a country of acceptance, freedom, and equality, people of color have been thought of and treated as inferior races. As research continued, scientists believed that other white races like the Europeans, Germans, and Irish, were white people in transition and would eventually meet their high standards. They believed that they could assimilate into American society and become white Americans; however, Asians, blacks, or any other minority was immediately disregarded as ever becoming American. Being white was a ticket to citizenship. In 1790, congress passed an act called the Naturalization Law, which stated that only free white immigrants could become naturalized citizens. Later on in 1870, the law expanded

Almost century later, African Americans are still being discriminated. They got jobs and their kids go to school, but more notice that it wasn 't right because they don 't interact with white people. Like in school they have different schools for colored students and in the colored schools don 't have the same supplies as the white schools and then started. Students in Virginia stared protesting against the school system because they weren 't given the same opportunities as white students. One Famous case on this is Brown V. Broad of Education, 1954. There are a lot of cases that African Americans didn 't felt equal in society because it wasn 't just in schools that they are being separated, They can 't go to the same public place as white people. More and more people are aware that this is happening also other stuff around the world is happening that most people don 't even realize it. The cold war was going on for a while and then Vietnam war beginning that most people are being drafted.

Africans were brought to America by Europeans, not of their own volition, but in chains, without the knowledge that over the next several hundred years, generations and generations of our people would be brutally and unjustly treated as nothing more than property or animals. The era during which slavery flourished, Africans were bred, overworked, beaten, lynched, and stripped of any positive identity or self respect. When slavery was abolished in 1865, Africans, or former slaves, were left without a “place” in America. Where did they fit in? What was the role that they were to play as, so called, American citizens? Some, undertook the role of “leader”, and preached and taught what they felt was the best process by which, blacks could

When African Americans first came to the United States, most of them were brought over to this land from their native homes as slaves, meant to do hard labor on farmlands owned by mostly wicked white plantation owners. They were not treated equally with white people in this country. In fact, African Americans were not even treated as people. Legislation in the United States after the American Revolution determined that a slave only counted as 2/3 of a person. The Dredd Scott Decision by the United States Supreme Court upheld the erroneous belief on the part of early Americans that slaves were "property not people" (Tsesis 2008, page 77). Following the American Civil War and the passage of the 19th Amendment, this changed and African Americans were finally granted citizenship in the United States. However, African Americans were still not anywhere near equal to whites in the United States, particularly throughout the southern states. Jim Crow laws in the south allowed for the segregation of African American and Caucasians in public places, such as bathrooms and schools. Even the United States Supreme Court upheld institutionalized segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Here, the Supreme Court ruled that having separate but equal facilities was still equal. The fact that black schools almost always had fewer and lower quality supplies, limited funds, and less advanced facilities were not taken into consideration with this ruling. This would be the

Today in society a majority of people are treated equally, however, in the early 20th century people were treated a lot differently. In the book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, some of the characters were isolated because of their gender, and race, and physical capabilities. African Americans were not allowed to vote until 1928 and when they did vote in 1932 many voted for the candidate from the democratic party, Franklin D. Roosevelt because a majority of Republicans had anti-black views. In the early 1930’s half of the African Americans were out of work since many businesses, especially in the south, preferred to hire white employees. African Americans were segregated in states across America including some of the northern states.

Despite slavery being abolished in 1865 and black people in America being legally free, most white Americans still considered African Americans to be inferior. They faced constant discrimination and hostility, and were treated as second-class citizens. (“BBC - Higher Bitesize History - Race relations between the wars,” n.d.) In the Southern states of America, where the majority of African Americans lived in the early 20th Century, white superiority was enforced and racial discrimination was legal. Southern states introduced laws to keep black people and white people separated and limit African Americans’ rights, and it was virtually impossible for them to challenge segregation. (“BBC - Higher Bitesize History - Race relations between the wars,” n.d.) The South became a very

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The period after the Civil War, called the Reconstruction, was a period in which the Federal Government expanded its powers by creating the 14th Amendment, granting the rights of citizenship to African Americans, and the 15thAmendment, granting the rights to vote to African American men. Also, the government created the Freedmen’s Bureau, designed to mobilize and organize new schools and civic buildings/institutions, as well as help to ensure African Americans’ political and civil rights. But all this, didn’t last for too long. There was an enormous opposition by the Southern States and the Democratic Party. They denied to African Americans their political and

I too have come to such conclusion, the civil right movement was not the single movement that shed some light to African-American men, women, and child, not to mention Hispanic. During the civil war, Africans were allow to enter within the military ranks of the north to prove that they equally qualified to serve and fight against their masters in the south. Unfortunately, African-Americans continued to struggle for basic human rights that were not given to them and other ethnicity. Consequently, the social tension had increased during the war against Vietnam (which is not consider a war since congress did not approved it), protest, riots, lynched African-American. Who is to say that the protest were peaceful? The white American was the

Over periods of time Americans have struggled in gaining equal rights which lead to many social, economic changes amongst the distribution of the economy in the 1900s. This time period was recognize as most important due to the fact much of Americans segregational era periods were formulated. During this time period many socialist reference the Civil Rights Movement, which located in the 1900s as one of many significant equality movements setup for all people. This influential time period speculated mostly on the southern members in trying many ways to set-up protest to de-segregate segregation. Many whites promptly violated, and prevented rights for African Americans based off of skin tone which as we all may say is stereotyping. The movement

What defines a person? It was believed in the United States, for a better part of the 20th century, that what defined a person was merely the color of one’s skin. It is actually more complex than the definition provided. It is one’s life experiences, such as where one lives and the things one deals with. The experiences of African Americans in the 20th century have been similar, mostly experiencing lives filled with affliction. Rather than their skin color, it was the hardships they faced that define what being an African American was all about. On a more specific level, what did it mean to be black in the United States? It meant several things: Firstly, it meant to be discriminated against and to face much racism. Secondly, it was inferred they were culturally inferior. It was of wide belief in the United States that African Americans were a “culturally deficient” sub species of man, below whites. This term is somewhat of an oxymoron. Culture is defined by social habits, language, and beliefs. Since everyone has social habits, languages and beliefs, it is impossible to be culturally deficient. By way of circumstance, African Americans developed their own culture in the United States. Ideologies of culture were brought upon the United States mainly by whites. The white culture was considered right, and the black culture was wrong. It was removed from what was the best culture, therefore, in essence, culturally inferior. Being African American in the United States also meant

In the late 19th and early 20th century, immigrants began seeking citizenship through naturalization. With a massive influx of immigrants that were not clearly White or Black, the government needed to establish racial definitions. There was a notion of superiority that was associated with being “white”. When immigrants soon realized the value and importance of “whiteness” in America’s society, they quickly applied for citizenship. In response to their movement, the government created racial and non-racial requirements that made it very difficult for people from African and Asian descent to justify their “whiteness”. The naturalization process during this time was a very intricate and complex procedure. American courts struggled proving

I believe that the two greatest civil rights movements in America during the twentieth century were the women’s suffrage movement and the African American civil rights movement, and even after them, people still faced prejudice. I used to wonder how life was for those involved in both: Black women. This group of people were instrumental in influencing civil rights legislation, while their stories of protesting and injustice are not as often told as those of Black men and white women. Some of these people, were the