During the year 1945-55 there was limited progress in improving the status of African-Americans because of segregation, limited education, money, the law and voting rights. Segregation was seen in all walks of life during this period, including the Army. African-Americans were not treated equally due to the Plessy v. Ferguson and Cunningham v. The Board of Education ruling of Separate But Equal. This meant that segregation was not seen as unconstitutional if the segregated areas are equal. All of this was put in place to ensure that it was incredibly difficult for African-Americans to improve their status.
The African Americans were not able to vote because the whites and the government disenfranchised the African Americans; until the 15th Amendment. The African Americans were considered illiterate to the Whites. The 15th amendment states that they could no longer discriminate based on race. Even though this amendment sounded like good news, the Whites still made literacy test and poll taxes that the African Americans had to do even before voting. The African Americans couldn’t run for office either, they still had Democrats and Republicans.
How freedoms for African Americans were socially, politically, and economically limited from 1865 to 1900 After the Civil War ended with Union victory, constitutional amendments were ratified to grant equal rights and freedom to enslaved African Americans; however, these rights were limited, restricted by those discriminating against African Americans. This new opportunity, promising African Americans better lives soon turned into lives full of terror and poverty. Many were poor, segregated in public facilities, and harassed, threatened or beaten by White Supremacy terror groups. Instead of living hopeful lives full with prosperity the African Americans wished for, they struggled to survive under conditions that gave them as much freedom as slaves had. African Americans’ social rights were very limited partially because of the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Separate but Unequal: The Fight to End Desegregation Segregation is the act or practice of setting groups of people apart from each based on the pigment of their skin, which is unjust and immoral. A man needs food, water, shelter, and medicine, regardless if they are black or white. In the United States after the Civil War, American society was segregated. Segregation of public places such as restaurants, buses, and schools were allowed. The separating of black and white has caused many problems in society and these inequalities are still felt today.
"Explain how freedoms for African Americans were socially, politically, and economically limited from 1865 to 1900?” Socially, blacks were subjected to segregation and discrimination. Segregation wasn’t really a large problem to them, however, as they were more interested in forming a black community rather than integrating with the whites. However, I mean, it is still pretty awful to be treated like you’re not a being worthy enough to drink out of the same water fountain or attend the same school based on skin color. Blacks were subjected to many dehumanizing things socially speaking. Oh, and lets not forget the KKK (if that falls into this category; I think it does) who harassed, intimidated, and killed black people.
40 ACRES AND A MULE Even though today's blacks did not experience slavery and cannot make any provable claim that the bondage of their ancestors negatively affects their lives, African American should receive reparation because blacks were denied the chance to compete for the opportunities and resources of America that were available to native whites and immigrants such as labor opportunities, free enterprise, and land. David Horowitz and Ernest Allen Jr. are two writers for nationally published magazines, who have opposing views about reparation for blacks. David Horowitz and Ernest Allen Jr. both debate 10 topics of slavery reparations, answering why slavery reparation is a good idea or bad idea. David Horowitz article titled Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Are a Bad Idea; thesis is outline as the following: “Claims for slavery reparations are founded on racist ideas that are inconsistent with America's democratic principles and institutions. Singling out only white Americans as those responsible for paying reparations to the descendants of slaves is unfair since Africans were involved in the slave trade as well.
He asks Richard what the co-workers had said and that they would be punished but Richard’s fear is too great and just accepts his pay and leaves. White supremacy is shown clearly in this instance where his co-workers feel that they had every right to scare a child and make him feel completely inferior. They did not want African Americans to feel like they had a voice, equality and certainly did not want blacks to feel as if they were someone of importance. The fact that Southern whites fear and discourage black migration to the North exposes the degree to which their pride and even their very economic welfare depends on the presence of blacks. Racism is a means to an end, as oppressors employ racist measures in order to achieve power over another group.
The liberal philosophy, created by George Washington Cable, “challenged the Redeemer’s philosophy that the South must have ‘honest’ government before it could aspire to ‘free government, and maintained that there could be neither free nor honest government without equal rights and protection for all citizens” (46). The conservative philosophy acknowledged that, “Negroes belonged in a subordinate role, but denied that the subordinates had to be ostracized […] segregated, or publically humiliated.” (48). The conservative philosophy was undoubtedly aristocratic and paternalistic (49). It drew on the differences of class amongst the whites by associating the disgust of black and white contact with the attitudes of lower-class whites (50) as well as the need of political Negro support. The Southern radical philosophy was strongly based on equalitarianism.
Furthermore in the Southern states of USA the abolition movement was resented. Plantation owners were unwilling to end slavery because it provided them with a free labour force. Many white Americans had justified slavery by thinking of slaves as racially inferior, as people without human needs, rights or dignity. The legal system had supported these racist views, and the rights of the plantation owners for many years. After 1890 many Southern governments passed a series of laws that set up a system of segregation that would last until the mid-twentieth century.
How far do you agree with the view that African Americans were treated as second class citizens between 1940 and 1946? This view is very accurate; African Americans were not offered the same political, economic or social opportunities and rights as white people, despite the terms of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. However, overall, treatment of African Americans was worse in the south. Political/ legal rights and opportunities were limited for African Americans due to their treatment as second class citizens. For example, in the south, Jim Crow laws were in place, meaning that everybody had to pass a literacy test and pay poll tax before they could vote.