The Role Of Discrimination In The Military

The quality of life on the Relief camps were horrible .Majority of the men working on these camps were broke and tired farm boys. These men were treated like salves. They would receive 20 cents a day for manual labor. A few of their tasks would include: widening a trail, putting in a culvert, or cutting and stacking wood. These jobs were very physically demanding and stressful on the body. The camps were run by the Department of National Defence, so the workers were under “army law”. So, the people in charge could say or do whatever they wanted. An 18 year-old who experienced a relief camp said “{We} were treated like dirt”. The only semi-positive thing about these relief camps were that they kept the workers well

In this document picture,( http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/united-states-colored-troops_reference.jpg), it shows some the African American soldiers that volunteered to enlist themselves to the war. Some of these men volunteered in hopes for the better of others. They hoped to make an impact. But African American soldiers had to go through so much. They had to go through more than what the white men had to go through. According to history.net, those slaves in the army, both Confederate and Union, "did not receive equal pay or equal treatment. They were paid $10 a month, with $3 deducted from that pay for clothing...In addition, segregated units were formed with black enlisted men commanded by white officers and black non-commissioned officers." They were thought less of. But through the hardships they had to go through, they managed to get some health care out of it. Since they were considered soldiers, they had to get the best health care, along with the whites, because they were fighting the war. The nurses had to make sure they were well enough to fight the battles that were to come. If they were sick, they had to be nursed to health. Every army camp should've had a hospital or a nurse treating the sick and wounded. So their access to treatment and health

The Civil war was a very hard and terrible time in history for all men, women, and children. It was also very dangerous. The war began on April 12,1861 and ended on May 13,1865. The war took place in U.S, Confederate states of America, Southern U.S, Western U.S, Atlantic Ocean, and North-Eastern U.S.

Another thing African Americas did during this time was participated in the war. This was part of the double victory blacks wanted. There were many testimonies on the front discussed in the documents of this chapter. The soldiers would write letters and tell their experiences to the others back home. A lot of soldiers would write to the well-known black newspapers like the Pittsburgh Courier, and Crisis. One of the letters to the Pittsburgh Courier from Private John S. Lyons elaborated on how deplorable the conditions were for black soldiers. “There is an instance of our present Commanding Officer throwing away a colored soldier’s discharge papers.”(Testimony from the front Private John S. Lyons) This was one of many incidents where African American soldiers were mistreated. Black soldiers were made to do strenuous work compared to the white soldiers. They were not given adequate amount of rest time between performing their duties. There were also, black women in the war that were continually discriminated against as well. Private First Class Gladys O. Thomas-Anderson went into great details on what she endured being a black woman serving in the military. She explained how she and others had to maintain their clothes as well as

The purpose of prison camps is to hold prisoners that were captured during the war. Over 400,000 men were captured and sent to the camps. The prison’s conditions were much more worse than the camps that the soldier’s stayed in. The North and the South both took part in holding these camps. If the men were captured, the only way for them to not be put in the camps was to promise to return to home or exchange for the other prisoners on the other side. However, these rules changed. Union leaders wanted to end prisoner exchange. In 1863, african americans began joining the war in. Confederate states wanted captured african american soldiers to be enslaved or executed. The prisoner exchange then terminated. This then resulted in the prison camps to be more crowded. In the camps, the conditions were poor. The food that was served lacked nutrition. Men often caught lice. The soldiers lacked medicine, ice, and doctors. Overcrowding became worse as time has gone by. In Andersonville, Georgia, a stockade was developed in an open field to keep prisoners. This was to handle the population in the other prison camps. The 20ft wall camp held 30,000 prisoners. Water was provided in the camps. However, the conditions in the camps were still horrific. Nearly 100 died each day. The death rates in the camps were really high. The death rates in the Union camps were twelve

Along with receiving less pay, the African American soldiers also had to pay a $3.50 “clothing allowance” and were mainly used for manual labor.(Textbook Pg 352) Also if these African American soldiers were caught by the Confederacy, the soldiers would either be returned to slavery or executed on the spot. As a result, the mortality rate for black soldiers was much higher than that of white soldiers.(Textbook Pg 352) These themes of inequality and division were shown in the movie, but were later reversed when the Union became unified. All in all, the experience of the war for these soldiers was horrific and oppressive. However, unity finally triumphed when the regiment showed their strong capabilities on the battlefield in the invasion of Fort Wagner, opening the ranks to over 180,000 African American soldiers to fight for the Union in the Civil

Although they were not truly free, as the Northern soldiers often considered them a burden in and around camp, they continued to arrive in great numbers at the union camps. They created their own makeshift camps outside the union camps, which were often disease ridden due to the substandard living conditions. This was not made any easier with the union soldiers’ refusal to feed, clothe, or shelter the slaves and

Throughout the Civil War, there were many different types of warfare. Amongst the common Union and Confederate soldiers, many men fought on either side in different types of irregular military forces. These forces, along with regular soldiers, contributed to the many styles of warfare. Three prominent warfare styles during the Civil War were regularly trained soldiers, bushwhackers, and guerrilla soldiers. The majority of battles were fought by official Union or Confederate soldiers. These battles typically had some sort of organization and were not extremely violent. A large portion of the remainder of the fighting was done by guerrilla soldiers or bushwhackers. The attacks carried out by the guerrilla soldiers were more violent,

For the first time, African Americans could be soldiers and could fight for the U.S. The U.S. Army had never accepted them before. Often they were working as shipboard firemen, stewards, coal heavers, and even boat pilots since 1861. In addition to the problems of war faced by all soldiers, African Americans soldiers faced additional difficulties created by

Men were dying left and right in the camps. The conditions and hygiene were poor especially during the beginning of the war. When the war began there were no plans of even treating the sick or the wounded. The first epidemics came of childhood diseases known as chicken pocks, mumps, whooping cough, and especially measles. Operations in the south meant a dangerous new environment. Surgeons had no antibiotics at the time so whiskey, coffee, and quinine were prescribed. During the Civil war these were only some of the few and little medicines that were available.

Roughly 200,000 "colored" men and their 7,000 white officers comprised the US Colored Troops during the Civil War (United States Colored Troops Institute, n.d.). It is widely known that President Lincoln vastly underestimated the resolve and strength of the southern states in their attempt for secession from the Union. President Lincoln would prepare for a "minor insurrection" by blockading Confederate Ports and calling for 75,000 volunteers. (McRae, 1995) Many blacks rushed to enlist in the Union Army but were turned away due to a Federal law dating from 1792 that barred "Negroes" from bearing arms for the U.S. Army (U.S. National Archives & Records Administration [NARA], n.d.). An appeal went out to the Governor of Ohio, David Todd, who rejected the idea by stating President's Lincoln position that, "this is a White man's government and that they were able to defend and protect it". (McRae, 1995)

The United States Army is a gigantic institute with an international presence. One of its fundamental sources of power is the diversity of its personnel, which includes 1.6 million workforce across the active, reserve, civilian, and contractor parts. While the Army was at the vanguard of ethnic incorporation in the 1950s and at present is one of the most assorted institutes in the U.S., further advancement must be made on the diversity front. The term "diversity" can be classified along countless aspects; this paper concentrates on racial diversity since the exceptional and traditionally important role that race has in matters of diversity in the Army. Internal communications concerning delegate leadership throughout the force, the Army sketches power from its cultural and racial diversity.

Discrimination is nothing new to our society or is it something that should be taken lightly and for many decades our Nation has endured many conflicts that have tested the will of Americans over the decades and it is evident that as we have become more diverse so too has our workforce. Although, we are in the twenty first century the goal is to understand why prejudice and discrimination is still so prevalent and how we can do better while trying to bring together our different backgrounds, skills, and experiences still has proven to be an issue that minorities are constantly fighting as they struggle to find there place in society. Through an array of well-educated researchers showing how diversity is nothing new to our society, but if we are to continue to grow and move forward we must be able to understand that with diversification we can foster a strong and inclusive economy that is built to last and nurture a nation that will continue to lead the world as standard setter.

They were probably one of the widely impacted groups and suffered through many hardships of the war. The soldiers were fighting for what they were raised to be a right on the southern side and the North was fighting for the equality of African Americans. Each soldier was fighting with an immense amount of passion for their people. The soldiers were shot and often killed in the war. When they were shot if they didn't die the limb that had been injured was removed by the Medical Staff. If they were alive they had to sleep in harsh weather conditions and endured through excruciating pains. If they died their bodies were collected and but in a pile with all of the others in the war that had been killed. If was very rare for the bodies to make it back home. The soldiers also wrote home often trying to connect with their loved ones because it was highly possible they would never see them

Do people in this country still make preconceived opinions of others strictly based off of appearances? Of course they do, humans in general will most likely relate certain races, genders, religions, etc. to certain personality traits until the end of time. The real question is: will they act on them? There has been a tremendous decline in acts of discrimination and prejudice in America and we are reaching the point where it is almost non-existent. This topic has received such intense scrutiny in the recent years that most people are now too afraid to use a color to describe something in public out of fear of a lawsuit.