Worst Fears Of African Americans

In the history of the United States, African Americans have always been discriminated against. When Africans first came to America, they were taken against their will and forced to work as laborers. They became slaves to the rich, greedy, lazy Americans. They were given no pay and often badly whipped and beaten. African Americans fought for their freedom, and up until the Civil War it was never given to them. When the Civil War began, they wanted to take part in fighting to free all slaves. Their opportunity to be soldiers and fight along side white men equally did not come easily, but eventually African Americans proved themselves able to withstand the heat of battle and fight as true American heroes.

The role of African American has changed over the centuries. They were treated differently because of their skin color. They were treated like property for others uses however change happened. It was not a easy matter to change but one of the main reason it did change was because Martin Luther King and his speech “I have a Dream”.

Throughout history, African Americans have encountered an overwhelming amount of obstacles for justice and equality. You can see instances of these obstacles especially during the 1800’s where there were various forms of segregation and racism such as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan terrorism, Jim- Crow laws, voting restrictions. These negative forces asserted by societal racism were present both pre and post slavery. Although blacks were often seen as being a core foundation for the creation of society and what it is today, they never were given credit for their work although forced. This was due to the various laws and social morals that were sustained for over 100 years throughout the United States. However, what the world didn’t

African Americans were deprived of many rights that they should have possessed as citizens, such as voting and having an equal education. The Jim Crow Laws made the African Americans an inferior race in society because these

In this time period, life was extremely hard for African Americans simply because they were slaves and even though they were emaciated in 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation. They were still treated with such disrespect...to the point where they were considered not to be humans. They were instilled with so much fear that the thought

African Americans have always faced prejudice and discrimination based off the color of their skin rather than the content of their character, even after they received “freedom.” However, during reconstruction especially, African Americans were faced with discrimination. To begin with, stated in document 1, the Black Codes, which basically were a set of laws placed to restrict the freedoms of African Americans. In the Black Codes, all basic rights (such as in the Bill of Rights) were revoked. African Americans weren’t allowed to own property, assemble, preach, bear arms, sell or barter, and had to work under white men. As a result of the Black Codes, African Americans basically had one of four options: be a tenant farmer, be a sharecropper, be a homestead farmer, or be homeless.

African Americans, prior to the 1960’s, were suffering under great oppression as they were treated as second-class citizens who did not deserve their full rights.

Everyday, people wake up and take it for granted. Just the simple and small things in life, people don’t seem to really appreciate. They tend to be ungrateful for the things that have been basically given to them. Many people of today do not realize the severity of how hard it was to get to this point in history. African Americans have had to face very strenuous times in order to make this world a better place. African Americans faced difficult times during the civil rights era, some of those hardships were; segregation, voting rights, and assassination of prominent African American leaders. The role that African Americans played in the Civil War was in fact bigger than anyone could ever imagine. One of

As we have seen, African Americans haven't had such an easy way of living. They go through many struggles a day. I personally don’t think that they deserve to get treated like this, the whites are so harsh on them even when it comes to little kids. They have a lot of laws regarding blacks, one of them is that if a slave is caught reading before the war is liable they have to receive thirty-nine lashes, and from my understanding, is they get hit that many times for disobeying that law. For everything that they do there always has to be a punishment. Also the blacks don’t have lots of money, they are basically poor, but luckily during the reconstruction about two hundred charitable groups opened up saving accounts to help them out a bit. In

African Americans experience specific events of danger related to race that overwhelm the nervous system and require us to recover. These dangers may be real or perceived discrimination, threats of harm and injury, police incidents, and humiliating and shaming events. The aggressors may be black or white. These events stand out in our memory and have long-term impact on our perception of ourselves and our social environments. As mentioned in the previous discussion, some African Americans are stronger after recovering from these events, and others have long-term declines in their ability to cope with future stresses and threats.

Almost a 100 years ago slavery was a big thing back then.Many African Americans were considered as slaves because the color of their skin or their religion.African Americans were working for people who owned farm land and wanted them to work because they didn’t wanted to do the work.The owner paid for the slaves a lot of money.Although african americans were suffering they made it through.To go through that far they have to use leadership,get along with others and most slaves went through prejudice.

African Americans were kept out of the loop of American society. The constant struggles for whatever advantages they could gain. African Americans were the main source of labor; back then black children are forced to work rather than go to school and be educated reading was even forbidden. African Americans have for the most part lost whatever Socially, politically, economically situation they had as a result of Reconstruction very brutally and systematically. African Americans did not attempt to assert themselves in any way, whether it was voting, whether it was trying to buy land, the white South resorted to terrorism. And that terrorism which was a legacy that never stopped from the time of the Civil War all the way up through this

There are multiple factors that differentiate the history and experience of African Americans from those of Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans. First African Americans were involuntary immigrated to the United States by traders looking to exploit them as a commodity to promote slavery. Unlike African Americans most ethnic groups immigrated here voluntary for economic and political freedom. Also while some of these groups were discriminated against their was a intensive effort to erase African culture from the minds of African Americans. Forcing them to abandon their language, history, culture and ancestral ties, to the europeans they were nothing, but a piece of property. Then after their past had been striped from them, African Americans were contintually taken advantage by whites to stay above them and not allow them to move up society. Even social reform that occurred before, during and after the Civil Rights movement still haven't allowed for significant changes. This coordinated effort has created a lingering legacy that has negatively affected the psyche and social orientation of many African Americans.

African descendants have lived in the United  States of America for over 400 years and since arriving the black race has struggled to obtain equality. Realistically, if you are born black in the United States of America, you are in a sense cursed with the burdens of  systematic oppression and racism.  Slavery and Jim Crow Laws were created by white supremacist to maintain power and authority as they sought out to rule over any and all minority groups they consider inferior to the white race. Fortunately, leaders of the black race have made tremendous strides in their efforts to level out the playing field between the two races.  The rise of abolitionism is were the journey for equality began with black political theorist like, David

African Americans are oppressed and have been oppressed since they were brought here from Africa. In the book Native Son when Max was defending Bigger he explained to the court how white people have oppressed black people, and how this plays apart in the crimes that black people commit, “ We have told him what to do; where to live; how much schooling he could get; where he could eat; and where and what kind of work he could do,” (Wright 394). Although we are not this controlled anymore, we are still oppressed and it has been said that for lots of black males that oppression leads to lashing out and anger, ( Alexander 164). And because of this, we still reap the consequences from this horrific time in history.