After the war, there was still no liberty for blacks; in fact, the colonists disliked the idea of granting freedom to Blacks that they refused their offer to fight on the side of the patriots. George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army. Furthermore, many other rights, such as the right of, "no taxation without representation” was violated even after the war. Actually, after the war, the majority of the population still lacked representation, because voting was restricted to land owning, white males, which only made up a fraction of the population. "The Continental Congress, which governed the colonies through the war, was dominated by rich men.
Freedoms for African Americans were socially, politically, and economically limited from 1865 to 1900. Socially, they weren’t allowed to go to the same places as whites. Politically, they couldn’t vote. And economically, they were treated like a piece of dirt, not like an actual person. Socially, blacks were never allowed to go to the same places as whites.
However, generally the Northern blacks were somewhat better off than the Southern blacks in 1945. In 1945, African Americans in the North had different conditions then the South. Firstly, there were political differences. Only 15% of black people in the southern states had the right to vote. Black people had the legal right to vote as there were measures that were put into place to prevent the south African Americans from voting by using the poll tax and literacy tests.
These laws denied black Americans the equal rights of white citizens which re-imposed white supremacy and meant they remained as second-class citizens. It wasn’t only the Jim Crow laws but under the Fifteenth Amendment, black people had the legal right to vote throughout America. Nonetheless, the southern states found devious ways to disenfranchise the local black population. For example, some states introduced a grandfather clause, which meant that people could only vote if their grandfathers had been able to vote. Other states introduced literacy tests as criteria for voting.
The court rejected Scott’s appeal, referring it to that African American doesn’t have any rights under the Constitution. The decision was positivity written down by the government explaining the power of the people and their property. The government stated that the power should not exercise others; they should not have power over the person and his property. No laws or traditions upon the relation between the slave and the master and can be overruled by the power of the government. The government had no right to take away the right of the American citizen that he or she had reserved by the Constitution.
If Congress agrees to count slaves toward the number of representation, then of course we would have less of a say. Our state, Delaware, is already the smallest state with the smallest population. If we add on our slave population, we would probably only gain one to two representatives while the other states would gain five or six. Plus, we don’t even have much representation to begin with, since another major issue is that the representatives are based off of population. So what gain do we get out of this
O'Reilly doesn’t realize that most black people have been put into situations where their race automatically targets them as a source for belittlement. Comments like "and he speaks so well," indicates the assumption that most black people don’t speak very well. A headline on the Fox News website said “Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs”. It featured a picture of basketball legend Charles Barkley, Comedian Chris Rock, and rapper Jay-Z. Although Jay-Z is a hip hop artist, he did not perform at the barbeque.
Also, “No blacks were elected to office and black voters, especially in the Deep South had virtually disappeared” ( Brown, Nikki L. M., and Barry M. Stentiford,466). In this quote the South had voted and always made sure that no African Americans could win elections. This quote also shows that White people in the South tried to hint a message saying that they didn’t want African Americans to be elected in anything. “Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, "freedom rides," and rallies received national
In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, the people of Maycomb live in an antebellum way of thinking. In this lifestyle black people are not to be treated in the same manner as white people. However, now with Tom Robinson’s case on the horizon there is only one person who helps change the minds of every single person. Atticus takes a stand by defending Tom Robinson, with not a single regret. In regard to peoples individual responsibility there is no extent to be active in upholding social justice.
That was because the whites were afraid that the black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system. Due to that the law was passed that black weren’t allowed to have any type of education. Life During Civil Rights Movement They mostly faced the problems of being black. Due to them being black they didn’t have many opportunities and they got rejected in everything. Also you can basically say we were here just to be neglected and be treated like nobody, and we were here for no reason.