What is being free in a country if you have no say in government or in any trials as a jury member. Out of the Northern states only five states were completely for giving freed blacks the right to vote. (Document A) Other five states had restrictions on the voting rights of the black men. The other six Northern states did not give the right to vote to the freed blacks. (Document A) If there is no right to vote in a country you are not treated like a citizen.
It was proposed in 1870 but it was passed in 1875. The Act guaranteed that every person, regardless of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in public accommodations but was rarely enforced as several important officials in police forces were openly racist. In north, racism was at the minimum for America and the ex-slaves would have had a very different experience than those of the south. The Freedman’s Bureau was a service that tried to aid former slaves with food, housing and other necessities. It was intended to last only one year after the civil but lasted longer due to surprising support and need for its services.
Basically all of the South’s resources were going to hell. Uncertain economic times make it pretty hard to make a living. African Americans found themselves to be politically limited during this time as Southern states passed laws that limited their access to exercise their right to vote. Literacy tests were used to keep blacks away from ballot boxes, as some states limited the right to vote to those who could pass a literacy test; a large majority of slaves had never learned to read or write. Not surprisingly, white voters were often given easier passages than blacks.
WALTER FRANCIS WHITE Walter Francis White was born on July 1st 1893 in Atlanta, Georgia. At that time Atlanta had Jim Crow laws so Walter White had to attend African American schools, although his appearance did not resemble that of his classmates, Walter White looked white. He is quoted from his autobiography A Man Called White in saying “I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue and my hair is blond. The Traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.” Even though African American schools were not known for their quality he was able to obtain admission to Atlanta University.
The Emancipation Proclamation completely changed the whole country with what was stated and the effect it had on the U.S and free and enslaved men. It had a positive effect on the North and the African Americans that lived there. The E.P also had an effect on the slaves in the confederate states for they were no longer considered slaves to the people of the North. Life for an African American wasn’t the best life for a person before the E.P. in the South and even in the North the African American population was still struggling.
In 1930 it was illegal to teach a slave to read or write, there were considered dangerous if they were literate, but even with the law some slave owners still taught slave children to read.10 By the 1860’s only 10% of the African American population were literate. But with the reconstruction era brought state supported schools for white and black children, although they were segregated by race. This is a vast accomplishment for the poor whites and blacks that just a few years earlier had no access to any form of education. 11 For a society of America as a whole it seems that the years from late 1700’s to mid to late 1800’s brought a lot of social change in the school system. I believe that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Rush sparked the ideas for the future, with Horace Mann as the engineer who created the mold of the two ideas into a whole common idea.
Growing up, I was taught to call African American’s “negro” or “colored.” I’m from a small southern town, with the population of African American’s is a big zero. I have racist friends, neighbors, and even family members. However, I was also raised in church, and I know what is right from what is wrong. I would never call someone a term where they could ever get offended. Calling someone “black” would bother me if I were of African ancestry, so why would I call someone else that?
African Americans were restricted from joining certain groups of society even after slavery had been abolished. African Americans were forced into social alienation or form their own social groups. Fischer argues that social groups in America are an example of free choice that Americans obtain: “Americans have an unusually free choice of groups, churches, neighborhoods, clubs, and even families” (Fischer 98). Fischer claims that American social groups have an unspoken rule that members have a free will to both join and leave groups whenever they desire. Historically, African Americans were not able to freely choose the groups they wished to join.
Getting only less than five percent of the white votes, Jackson lost his primary. In concluding about the Civil Rights Movement, it is strongly suggested that the late 50s and 60s were time purging and renewal for America. The incidents faced were sometimes horrible and violent, but all for a good cause. The Civil Rights Movement was a wake up call to the American society. Although it did not solve all racial problems, it did put America on the path to recovery that we are still traveling down today.
Source based essay The Civil Rights Movement “Martin Luther King Jr. Played a significant role in trying to establish a just equal society for all Americans” The statement made is inaccurate, because even though he fought to make some significant changes in terms of the inequality of black people, no lasting or major change was caused within the USA (source E displays this nicely as it shows how blacks have suffered in terms of the economic inequality due to black peoples poverty, shows political inequality as 13 percent of black people don’t have a vote and social inequalities due to such facts as the number of black people in jail. These are all things that the NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr. fought for, but no significant change was achieved or made) Black people were treated as inferior and unequal, and although MLK tried to change this, he lacked the ability to do so. Black people were treated as unequal to whites or as “they claimed to set” them “free by calling you a second-class citizen”(Source C). The political and legislative law made blacks follow segregation laws(Jim Crow laws) and in essence did not give them equal human rights to those of whites.