DHL and the men could not reach an agreement, therefore, on behalf of the federal government, the EEOC helped to process the charges and pursue litigation. The EEOC has filed racial discrimination charges against DHL. African Americans have been the subject of discrimination since the 1600s when they were brought to America as slaves. From 1890 to 1940 the Jim Crow laws enacted throughout The United States openly segregated Black and White Americans in public places. Black Americans were publically beaten, frightened, and even killed (Magar, 2010).
How far do you agree that events at Little Rock were the most important for the Civil Rights campaign? During the 1940s – 60s, the South of America was totally segregated, separating the white people from the blacks: from schools and jobs, to travelling and shopping. The Black African American community faced severe hardships during this period, in terms of: lynching, slavery, torture and segregation alone, as racism and discrimination were immense. Due to the unstoppable, horrifying racism portrayed in the USA, the ‘Civil Rights Campaign,’ a campaign which aimed to abolish the main cause of racism and discrimination, begun to expand during the 1950s. While there may have been many who disliked and hated African Americans, the Civil Rights campaigners crafted and cunningly planned tactics to permanently change the opinions of the brain-washed racists using methods and people, such as: Little Rock, Martin Luther King and Rosa parks (bus boycotts) – as source 7 displays R. Parks being arrested for refusing to give up her seat for sitting in the ‘white only seats.’ Racism was also stored in the hearts and minds, which can be identified through Source 3, which shows the two separated sinks that a black and white person would use – the clean, spacious tap for the whites, and the dirty, tiny tap that the black people would use.
During the early 20th century, Jim Crow South had a significant impact on people. Jim Crow laws were rulings that enforced racial segregation in the south from 1877-1954 forcing blacks to live separate from whites; usually in a poor quality society. Jim Crow laws managed and dictated which privileges blacks enjoyed. By law, blacks could not use the same facilities, could not attend the same schools, or could not drink out of the same water fountains as whites. The laws were basically just a list of “could-nots”.
The blacks were treated in an inhumane style, receiving violent beating and extreme manual labour for many hours of the day, minimum amounts of food and poor living conditions. In 1861, the war against Slavery in America began. After 4 years of fighting between the Northern and Southern States of America that left of 600,000 dead, the Northern states had defeated the Southern states that had been fighting for slavery and their own secession. After becoming victorious, the Northern states and the President declared slavery to be abolished in America. However, even after its abolishment, blacks were still kept in slavery and were treated poorly and unequal to other, white Americans.
How far has the importance of Martin Luther King’s role in the Civil Rights movement been exaggerated? In the 1950s and 60s, black Americans were victim to severe and brutal racist discrimination, particularly in the southern states, where segregation was “de Jure” ( by law), the ‘Jim-Crow’ laws made sure that everyday facilities such as buses, parks and schools were segregated, with different services for black and white people and where black people were violently threatened to prevent them from voting (for example in Mississippi, any black people who tried to vote faced intimidation and even lynching , this resulted in only five per cent of the black population there registering to vote.). In the north, things were a little better, in the sense that there were laws in place to prevent the amount of legal discrimination of that in the south, however, the discrimination in the North was De Facto, these laws could not control people’s racist attitudes and racism was still an everyday experience for black people; for example in the ghettos, discrimination in employment opportunities resulted in the formation of ‘Ghettos’ where, in some parts, black Americans lived in poverty stricken communities together, in the only housing that they could afford, shabby houses in dire conditions. Throughout the country, black Americans were not given the same educational and employment opportunities as white people and they lived in fear, not only of the daily racist abusers, but also from the police officers who were supposed to protect them, in fact the police often took part in racist killings and white juries almost always acquitted whites of killing blacks. However, amongst all this racism, brave Americans emerged who struggled in the fight for black civil rights and an end to this racism, one of these people being the Baptist minister, Martin Luther King.
Many of these facilities were, education, healthcare, transport, cinemas, restaurants and churches and even housing and estates were segregated. This shows the extent white went to separate them from the ‘inferior’ race. Jim Crow laws limited black Americans from having a better way of life as they were made poorer, didn’t have the opportunity to managerial roles as they were only allowed the low paying jobs and weren’t equal to white people increasing poor conditions, also, led to unequal or no voting rights in coloured communities. Under the Fifteenth Amendment black people had legal rights to vote across America. However, many southern states found ways around the laws to disenfranchise the black populations.
In What Ways Did Black Americans Secure Improved Civil Rights: 1945-1964? Black Americans had often been looked down upon by White Americans and always suffered racial prejudice. Their struggle for equal racial rights had begun from the end of slavery in 1865, only until the late 1960’s did significant improvement was made. Following the events and ending of World War II, Black Americans began what would become known as the Civil Rights Movement. In 1951, the father of a black student named Linda Brown sued the Board of Education because a white school had prevented Brown from attending a school which was only seven blocks away, compared to the segregated black school she was attending which was more than seven blocks away from her home.
This movie reveals a sign of regress of our society because, most lynching incidents in America which occurred in public spaces and were usually the result of rape allegations involving black male supposedly assailants and white women who were purportedly their victims has not been seeing as a pure act of cruelty and hated from white supremacist calling for “justice”. A proof of this is that today, the noose appears in secluded areas such as school grounds and workplaces (Hyde Turner tragedy at work Conrald, Texas) as a result of racial tension in the U.S. Years after the Civil Right Movement, the battle for respect among all people regardless of the color of their skins and the end of racist organization or movement is far from over. A change has been operated but it is not enough to prevent such actions in the first democratic country of the world. In my opinion, the fact CNN host Kyra Phillips emphasize the importance that “youth people understand the horrors of the noose.” shows that American youth today are more sensitive about racial violence than previous generations of Americans. The essential reasons is because these major racial acts of violence occurred in the past so we should now be able to look at it from a clear, reasonably coherent and tolerant point of view in order to make these events stop.
Throughout history, African Americans have faced a great deal of adversity. They endured many years of slavery where they were forced into positions of servitude to the whites. After slavery had been abolished, African Americans were forced to deal with additional controversial matters such as the Jim Crow laws. These laws mandated the racial segregation in all public facilities in the southern states of the United States. These laws also created environments for African Americans that had a tendency to be inferior to those provided for white Americans.
African Americans were segregated from the whites and also Women had no rights because Men were seen as the alpha male. The obstacles of the two would probably fit into the race and gender of how America was back in the twentieth century. African Americans were always hard to be put in society in the 1900’s because of slavery. Even though slavery had ended in the 1950’s, they were still not accepted into society. The northern parts of the United States accepted African Americans, and many try to escape to the north to try to get employed and leave the racial segregation in the south.