Most of the African Americans were just slaves to the Whites. The African Americans didn’t usually have any say in their lives because they were unequal to the Whites. The African Americans were forced to sharecrop because they could not afford their own land. Their pay was less than minimal. The African Americans were treated unfairly and they were the first group of people that were laid off during any economic downturn.
Segregation laws did not only humiliate blacks, they were also used to cut them off from employment opportunities and other essential social services. In most cases, blacks received inferior facilities and treatments. “From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws… From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. Here is a sampling of laws from various
Kings assassination in 1968 caused further rioting. Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 by a Black Muslim and Dr King by a white racist in 1968 How successful were the civil rights movements by 1970? Federal government programmes were beginning to have some effect * Efforts made under Kennedy’s ‘New Frontier’ and Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ to eliminate poverty (increases in minimum wage) and unemployment (VISTA programme tried to create work in poor inner-city areas) and as a result unemployment fell in the early 1970s * Successes of Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965) * 1967 Supreme court ruled that state laws criminalising interracial marriages were illegal * 1968 Civil Rights Act outlawed unfair distribution of welfare housing * Equal Employment Opportunity commission was created to deal with complaints LBJ appointed first-ever black American to the White House cabinet and Supreme Court: Thurgood Marshall (US Solicitor General in 1965 and a Supreme Court Judge in 1967) However, by the 1970’s Vietnam became more of an issue, for many young Americans in
In many Southern States the force and presence of the Klan was enough to dissuade African Americans from joining the campaign - Mississippi, as state with the highest amount of Klan activity also had the lowest amount of registered African American voters, and the lowest amount of NAACP activists. The Klan’s ability to intimidate African Americans could be viewed as a reason in explaining why it took so long for the Bill to be passed. The open racism of the klan was another big issue for the Civil Rights Campaign. The conspicuous nature of their hate made racism more commonplace, and accepted thing that happened. This de facto bigotry made it more difficult for civil rights activist to change the hearts and minds of the activists, and made politicians reticent about their support of the campaign, for fear of losing public support.
Hunter Sprinkles Dr. Caulfield Language 120 February 15, 2013 The Psychology behind Delayed Desegregation Brown v. Board of Education delivered a monumental ruling in 1954 that classified separate but equal segregation to be unconstitutional. This victory for the African American community renewed fading hope that change and equality would one day be a reality. The harsh truth, however, was that even a decade later the black community had seen very little if any improvements. Malcolm X delivered a speech in 1964 putting into words the feelings of many blacks still struggling in the segregated South. “No, I’m not an American.
The fight for equal rights has been a hard fight. Beginning in the 1950s people used methods to try to gain equal rights. African Americans in the 1950s were treated unequally and used these methods to gain equal rights. During the modern civil rights movement, people were denied equality and used methods to try to change it. One way African Americans were denied rights is by not being able to sit in the same section of the bus as White people.
This meant that black and white people had to live separately; they also had separate social venues. Many black people moved towards the Northern states where they were more accepted. Attitudes towards women were also similar to those of men. Often they were treated as possessions as we can see with Curley’s wife. “Ain’t no room for a girl”.
After the 1896 ‘Plessy vs. Ferguson’ ruling on ‘separate but equal’ everything was segregated. Public facilities, housing, schools, employment and transport was some of the things that were segregated. In segregation, black people were not treated the same as white people – blacks having less opportunity , under priviledged education and worse conditions in public facilities than whites. In Mississippi, the state was paying $93,15 for every white student and only $48,14 for every black student. This further emphasised that ‘separate’ was not equal.
INTRODUCTION: Before 1945, the white attitude to blacks was very different to how it is today. A lot needed changing, and it took a large amount of protests and court cases to do so. For example, blacks had no say in elections, and this was enforced with the grandfather clause (where they had to prove that men of two generations before them had been eligible to vote, which they couldn’t) or the literacy clause (where they had to prove they could read and write, which most of them couldn’t). Discrimination in education and employment had led to social deprivation, and many blacks in the North were living in ghettos. PUBLIC OPINION: During the war, black Americans did not approve of the slogan of the war that focused on equality and liberty, as to them it seemed hypocritical, because all they received was discrimination.
How have African-Americans worked to end segregation, discrimination, and isolation to attain equality and civil rights? Cherrelle jones Professor Naomi Rendia History Ashford University 15 August 2012 During the American revolution of the 1860’s, population of the African American in Northern America formed approximately 1% of the population. African American got single out due to their color since they arrived in America as slaves. White people believed black people were inferior to them. Compared to other races, they got humiliated, enslaved and denied fundamental rights by the whites.