, U.S. History 1.06 Assessment 9-24-15 Social Limitations: During the Civil War times and after the war, the African Americans had it rough. The Whites and the Blacks were not exactly friends, more like business partners if anything. The African Ameri8cans were not allowed to live in the same neighborhood as the Whites. They had to live in separate communities and even then there were still problems. The African American children did not attend the same schools as the Whites.
It threw many people together from various backgrounds who might not have met if not for the war.- Working class and middle class, black and white, different religions and ethnic groups. The African Americans fought in the war for their country and believed that their contribution to the war should get them recognized as American citizens. They were recognized as heroes, but couldn’t be served in restaurants back home. In the UK, it is popularly believed that for the first time, wealthy middle class country dwellers actually got to see the state of poor town children who were evacuated out of the town because of threat of bombing. Women, also, had been forced to do former men's work: munitions, farming, factory work etc.
For example, in the south, African Americans had little chance of being employed against white people, due to the discrimination of employers. This trapped blacks in a cycle of poverty; if they couldn’t get jobs, they couldn’t afford to pay poll tax so they could vote for someone who would improve their employment rights. Also, southern African Americans had few employment opportunities. For example, sharecropping and other agricultural jobs were the main opportunities. African American women were treated even worse than men.
This affected black Americans and ethnic minorities because most of the people that came under that class were on the poverty program, so they opposed the war. The public opinion of the war in America was mainly against the US involvement in Vietnam. When the public heard that America were pulling out of the war they felt as if all the men who had died, had died for nothing. The tactics of the Vietcong were guerilla warfare. This was the type of warfare that the American’s were not use to fighting in.
In the late 19th century, state and local governments imposed restrictions on voting qualifications which left the African community economically and politically powerless and passed segregation laws, known as Jim Crow laws. Therefore the movement focused on three main areas of discrimination to address, racial segregation, education, and voting rights. Racial segregation is the separation of humans into ethnic groups. Segregation affected many African-Americans day-to-day life, forcing them to go to separate restaurants, water fountains, public toilets, schools, and even making them ride the back of the bus. In 1955 African-Americans in Montgomery, Alabama formed a boycott in protest of the segregated seating on the city buses, In response to Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, getting arrested for refusing
Many Africans were brave and fought against this treatment. It was a response to all of the pandemonium happening. A few of these people were: Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm Little (also known as Malcolm X). These brave people helped end the segregation. They made people realize that the way whites treated blacks was wrong, and that there was a need for change.
From the beginning there were many examples of inaccurate perception of race. The history before the civil rights movement had left the majority of people in this generation to hate the opposing race, which explains the amount of inaccurate perceptions. For example, Gerry Bertier and Julius were two teammates that initially hated each other. Bertier, the white team captain and Julius was a black player that was just as good as Bertier. The tension of race as well as other social pressures kept their friendship from forming for most of the film and illustrated the difficulty of integration during this time.
While the legal systems of the northern states were not as fair toward African American rights, the prejudice among the populace was as a criminal act . White laborers complained that African Americans were flooding the employment market and lowering wages. Most new migrants found themselves segregated by practice in run down urban slums. The largest of these was Harlem. Writers, actors, artists, and musicians glorified African American traditions, and at the same time created new
Before the Civil war ended, African Americans were treated unequally even though slaves were literally emancipated. At the period where the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was set, niggers were known to be uneducated, liars, and any negative comments the white masters could ever think of. They were not considered to be human nor were they having any rights. Rather, they were thought to be goods by merchants, washing machines by masters, or even toys by children. Most Africans in America at that period had extremely low self-esteem, believing they were inferior to the white Americans, and suffered from work and the separation of their families.
Also because of the discrimination they lived in awful conditions with dusty floors no glass windows and generally underprivileged. Segregation is an effect of intolerance because it is separating them and making the rights between black Americans and white Americans unfair. And because of the Jim Crow laws racism increased highly and the effect was obviously negative to the Black