The Discrimination Of African Americans

In 1865, slavery was abolished, by the Thirteenth amendment. This Amendment brought humongous changes and a large number of problems. (Lecture 1) After the destruction of slavery, it left nearly four million African American with no property, little training, and few rights; which made the definition of freedom for African Americans the central question on the nation’s agenda. The big question of the time period was, “what was freedom for African Americans?” (Give me liberty! An American 550)

In 1865, the United States government implemented what was known as Reconstruction. Its’ purpose was to remove slavery from the south, and give African-American’s the freedom in which they deserved. However, the freedom that they deserved was not the freedom that they received. With documents like The Black Codes restricting them from numerous privileges that white people had and the terroristic organization known as the Klu Klux Klan attacking and killing them, African-American’s were still being oppressed by their government as well as their fellow man. Slavery may have been abolished, but African-American’s were not yet given the freedom and rights that their white counterparts took for granted.

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.

The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery and African American slaves gained their freedom during the Civil War; however, this did not mean they were fully integrated into American society. After the war, Southern Whites faced a crisis. The emancipation of slaves and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship undermined their assertion that citizenship was for Whites only. The clear line between Whites who ruled and Blacks who were ruled became vulnerable. Since Whites slave owners could no longer treat the former slaves as non-citizens, they sought to strengthen this distinction by restoring slavery as best they could. Imposing disabilities on Black civil rights that limited their access to full citizenship was a goal to reach.

After the Union victory in the Civil War in 1865, about four million slaves obtained their freedom in the United States of America thanks to the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. One former slave, Houston Hartsfield Holloway, wrote about it, in a very peaceful way "…we coloured people did not know how to be free and the white people did not know how to have a free coloured person about them." But we will come back to this point later on, because we first have to deal with the situation in the United States at this time. From a foreign point of view, the South of the United States of America is considered tough in its consideration of coloured people. This esteem, although it is rudimentary, is still applicable. It is founded on past acts of southern politicians: from 1865 to 1877 the country had been reconstructed socially, politically and economically but because the South was not pleased of the abolition of slavery, it instituted the Black Codes in order to carry on white supremacy. If Afro-American people were now free, they started being physically separated from white Americans. This separation was new, as it did not exist before the Civil War. Even if the situation of former slaves was improved, the South came with a great price to afford freedom for coloured people. I suggest we study the historical context to understand

In December of 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment officially banned slavery throughout the United States of America. After multiple centuries of chattel slavery, predominately in the American South, African-Americans were finally set free from bondage. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments quickly followed, granting citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” and granting African American men the right to vote, respectively. Naturally, Americans denoted these momentous legislative feats, collectively packaged as the Reconstruction Amendments, as a means of celebration for African-Americans. However, in order to rectify the extensive damage that the American Civil War caused on the South’s infrastructure, labor systems, and economy, white Americans went to extreme lengths via the legal system in order to mimic the antebellum practices of slavery in the South. As newly freed African-Americans sought to exercise their nascent constitutional rights, they were constantly slammed with new, legally permissible practices of exploitation and segregation.

One can only begin to imagine the life for a slave during the mid-late nineteenth century. For an African American, the word “life” evolved from a word that meant absolutely nothing, to a word that stood for an individual’s highest commodity. After the civil war, emancipation for slaves transformed from a dream to a reality. Although the civil war finally ended in 1865 after four years of fighting, certain citizens and groups across the nation still remained in a state if disagreement with the freedom granted to African Americans. The years after the civil war revolutionized many principles that are the basis of regulations constituted in today’s society. The lives of African Americans began to change forever throughout the years after the civil war, a period otherwise known as the Reconstruction era that stretched from 1865 to 1877. Life for newly emancipated slaves during the Reconstruction era consisted of living with the fear of confrontation with hate-groups, as well as opposing unconstitutional laws, and challenging equality in the United States.

In 1862 entering the third year in the course of the Civil War, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a tactic to have African American’s serve in the war. This proclamation declared that all slaves living in rebellious states would be freed. This gave way to the 13th amendment which was passed in 1865 and eradicated slavery. The 14th, and 15th amendments followed soon after in the constitution of the United States as a set of amendments intended to establish equality for the newly emancipated slaves. As part of these agreed upon amendments, African American’s were granted citizenship, reclaimed the right to vote and were guaranteed equal protection of the laws. As a result of these new alterations to the constitution, fear quickly arose among whites. Motivating whites to become creative and develop new methods to control the imminent threat to economic,

One of the group who has been always been is African American women. From the history “has always been in a difficult situation ,they have been expeirnce ing long suffering and humiliation from salvery, to the post civil war era, to the jim crow erra and after.” (309, Kaba). They have been suffering from economically, economically, socially and .. they still lag behind than other cultural group.

When the Africans arrived in the Americas, the majority of them worked on plantations. Men, women, and even children worked. Women mostly worked as servants, nurses, dressmakers, and cookers. Whereas men worked as metalworkers, watch smiths, and etc. Africans who worked on plantations can only leave the field at a certain time, depending on the season of the crop. Africans created environment and wealth for their owner and their families. They also faced brutal oppression and they had no freedom whatsoever. Women were often abused and raped by their owner, which resulted in a mixed-race population. Some of the mixed race were free to a certain extent, whereas other had to buy their freedom.

Over the course of American history, it is no question that other races have been disadvantaged because of their heritage and minority status. Slavery and discrimination have led to severe drawbacks for African American society, to give an example, which is unfair and unfortunate to those that have worked so hard and lose just because of their race. Luckily though, racism is coming to a much tighter close as time goes on, and people of color are much less discriminated than they once were. Privilege exists within every American due to the great freedom the country offers. Cultures are not structured to hate or isolate another culture; things like this happen because the people within those cultures have different viewpoints, which may cause

In our society, today there are various privileges given to everyone but one I chose to talk about was one dealing with a person’s name. Names are the beginning of discrimination against the African-American population because of the stereotypical so-called “black names”. This is a problem in today’s society because businesses that are hiring applicants can look at a name and automatically make the decision on if they want to give this person chance at an interview or not. For example, there are two applicants one with the name of Bethany and the Shaniqwa, they both have all the same credentials and the same abilities to be able to get the job done thoroughly, but the person hiring will hire Bethany based on her name. That is what it is like African-Americans in the workforce, whether people want to believe it or not. Discrimination can happen in many forms, and because corporations rather not be blatant with discrimination, they find other ways like this to discriminate. What do we go through to try and avoid discrimination? What can be done to stop the discrimination? These are some of the questions I hope to find answers to as I

It is normal for us to see people with different race around us now that do service and labor in America , and they mostly don't get discriminated because of their race. However, there was a different story of racial discrimination back in American history. Overtime there are many changes for racial discrimination that has been made in the treatment of the people who build, serve, and protect our country in different ways, those people are the African-American and the Native Americans.

Within any society there will be discrimination whether someone is discriminated by his or her race, gender or sexual orientation. One of the most infamous types of discrimination is towards African Americans. From the birth of the United States to today’s society there has been discrimination towards African Americans. From schools to homes there has been discrimination. Although the racism is nowhere near as harsh today as it used to be it is still around.

I would hazard a guess that racisms is a common issue occurring in nearly every country. It took place even in early 1800s when people were migrating west ,due to the Manifest Destiny, discriminating Native Americans. Because they did not look alike, migrants were afraid and felt the need to attack Natives. Furthermore, in the times of slavery, „white„ people were privileged. They were to one to be served by their slaves. African-Americans have to fight hard for their lives to be in the same level as others. Movements, for example, „Black lives matters" in my opinion show that there is still discrimination. I have never seen movement that fought for rights of people with European origin.