Compare, contrast and asses the ideas of Booker T, du bois, Randall and Marcus Garvey to overcome the challenges faced by African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centauries, African Americans were suffering greatly, due to the apparent effects of segregation. In this notion legal segregation was developing in the south while natural segregation seemed clear in the north. This was down to the realisation of the indifference of wealth between the ‘Blacks’ and the ‘whites’. Inevitably this discrimination also involved much more than just indifference of colour, blacks experienced poor working conditions violent retaliation and even lynching if the status quo of white supremacy was to be challenged.
How far do you agree that the impact of WW2 was the reason why the position of black Americans improved 1945-55? WW2 changed the civil rights for black Americans extremely quickly with many black Americans fighting in the war. This lead too many people actually respecting black Americans and helped them gain rights. With 1.2 million black Americans fighting for America against the fascists of Germany they realised that even though they were fighting for equality they didn’t even have this in their own country. This therefore questioned the double V campaign as it was supposed to be a victory at home as well as at war but without equality then this would not be possible.
In the 1950’s Black Americans from South endured, de jure discrimination. Black Americans would often be victims of extreme cruelty and violence, causing death. They began to discontent their long- standing inequality. From the words of Martin Luther King Jr, and other African Americans and their supporters, they began to challenge the nation to “rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created
The previous mentality of the Accommodationist was rapidly diminishing amongst blacks as they no longer wanted to accept the status quo nor accept that inequality was God’s will. However, as ‘‘racially motivated violence had become part of the way of life in the South’ . World War 2 can not be accounted for as the key turning point in the civil rights movement just because it increased black consciousness and activities in the North. Other factors and key leading figures in the civil rights campaign can be seen as more prominent in the civil rights campaign. These include the achievements: of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People l (NAACP).
Bobo asks how we can have milestone decisions like Brown V. Board, pass a civil rights act, a voting act, fair housing acts, and numerous acts of enforcement and amendments, including the pursuit of affirmative action policies and still continue to face a significant racial divide in America. Bobo offers these thoughts on the subject. In America we are witnessing the crystallization of a new racial ideology Bobo refers to as laissez-faire racism. Furthermore race and racism remain powerful levers in American national politics. Additionally social science has played a peculiar role in the problem of race according to Bobo.
Some people say Martin Luther King also proposed black people rights as well but his major achievement of black people was enlarging black people`s governmental and political participation scale. Also, he emphasized the peace between white people and black, and to understand each other. But I would say rather than convincing white people and convinced black people to endure the pain and understand white people`s behavior.While Malcom X only eager for the freedom and his exclamations were made straight and clear by his intensive usage of words. Malcom X movement was more successful than that of Martin Luther King. Lets make an example, if you are bullied by A and you carry his book, bring snacks for him, and dance if he says dance and crawl if he says crawl and have to pay money for his cigar,.
August Wilson’s Fences raises many important questions that African Americans were facing in the 1950’s, these questions range from inquiries about blacks as people to the way civil and political rights affected them. For each individual there are different questions that may be important and require more thought to answer than others. Questions regarding racial inequality in employment, housing, and a wide range of other social domains are common when considering the difficulties blacks faced in the 1950’s. There are not only social aspects that were involved but psychological ones as well. The most important question in terms of society is how much did institutional racism, both implicit and explicit, hold the African American community from
‘Key individuals rather than organised campaigns were the real force for change in the achievement of equal rights for Americans’ Social inequality segregation and racism has held a heavy burden over African Americans in the history of United States. Being treated as a second class of human beings was something that the coloured people of America had to live with. Powerful individuals pushing for the triumph of equivalent rights for all Americans were the courage and determination behind the ongoing fight against the violent injustice that the white people of America cruelly imposing upon the Black society. The act of civil rights in 1964 was the transformation that the colored people of America had hoped for. The Americans were finally free from the gruelling oppression
Another propaganda the US Government used was the idea they were fighting for freedom and human rights, yet the black soldiers fighting were not completely free and were having their own human rights abused back in America. As well as the fact the fact that despite the US welcomed the extra soldiers but still treated them unequally sparked something amongst the black community. And so began the Double V Campaign. It stood for Victory Abroad, Victory at Home. It meant they wanted Victory against Nazi Germany and the Axis, and Victory for Civil Rights.
African-American Plight and Fight for Freedom and Equality [Student Name] [School] [Course/Number] August 24, 2012 [Instructor Name] African-American Plight and Fight for Freedom and Equality African-Americans have undergone much turmoil in the desire to overcome the pain and thrust of segregation, discrimination, and isolation all rolled into one bundle of hate and discord. Through the course of history, there have been a myriad of conflicts involved where African-Americans were pushed to the social corner of insignificance, therefore provoking them to the extent of unrest. Much historical evidence has presented the desire of African-Americans to overcome the many thorns that struck their