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. In search of better conditions, four leading African-Americans offered some solution’s to deal with the situation. Booker T. Washington, du bois, Marcus Garvey and Phillip Randall all contributed to giving the black community a voice in America. There different roles will be compared contrasted and assessed in their part to play in overcoming these challenges. Firstly Booker T. Washington, he was a Black educator who focused on practical education which would lead to black social advancement.
In order to achieve the freedom they believed they would only attain this freedom by joining the civil rights movement. Moody was a strong activist for the rights of the black people as she considered it important for people to be treated equally. Anne Moody and the young people in the civil rights movement felt the only way for the black people to be treated fairly would be to equally prove how important their rights meant to them. By participating in Freedom marches and civil rights movements showed how much the people valued their human rights. Anne Moody was brought up in the rural Mississippi where she faced and experienced various problems against their black race.
Outline some of the factors within the education system that may have contributed to improvements in girl’s achievements. Within the education system many factors have contributed to improvement in girl’s attainment, such as the impact of feminism, changing girl’s ambitions, the equal opportunities policy and more. Some sociologists argue that changes in the way pupils are assessed have favoured girls. For example, Steven gorard found the gender gap in attainment was narrow until GCSE’s were introduced, after which it increased sharply. It brought coursework as a major part of most subjects with it.
Civil rights was the most important reform during 1945 and 1980. The civil rights movement was a movement fighting for African-Americans equality, privileges, and rights. The Movement was centered around the injustice of African -Americans in the South. African American faced racial inequality, lack of economic opportunity, and unfairness in the political and legal processes. In the late 19th century, state and local governments imposed restrictions on voting qualifications which left the African community economically and politically powerless and passed segregation laws, known as Jim Crow laws.
She argued that persistent inequality led to feelings of isolation and low socioeconomic status and that children's futures and learning opportunities were persistently limited by racism. She acknowledged, however, that this argument was not an absolute truth and that certain personality types may thrive in integrated schools. Prosser’s influence on education was felt across many fields. During the debates over school segregation in the 1920s, many of her arguments were cited. She was a critical voice for the African-American community at a time when women academics were scarce.
Here, Malcolm X argues, like many other leaders and protestors of the Civil Right Movement, that Black Power was paramount among the people and that it was the mainstay of the identity and the stability of America. Though this statement is highly biased in clear favor of African Americans, it was, nevertheless, a clear example of how Black Power reigned throughout the African American communities in America. Document 1 is a primary source document adapted from one of Malcolm X’s speeches. This document, which is written in Malcolm X’s perspective, is a call for Blacks to gain freedom from segregation by creating jobs on their own rather than “begging others for a job.” This document is valuable in that it shows that the idea of Black Nationalism was widely accepted among the supporters of Malcolm X and other anti-segregationists as well.
After the 1896 ‘Plessy vs. Ferguson’ ruling on ‘separate but equal’ everything was segregated. Public facilities, housing, schools, employment and transport was some of the things that were segregated. In segregation, black people were not treated the same as white people – blacks having less opportunity , under priviledged education and worse conditions in public facilities than whites. In Mississippi, the state was paying $93,15 for every white student and only $48,14 for every black student. This further emphasised that ‘separate’ was not equal.
It put the demands for women’s equality, religion, sports, marriage and child bearing on a higher scale. “The Women’s Movement of the 1960’s was a ground-breaking part of American history because along with African-Americans another minority group stood up for equality, women was finished with being complacent.” Woman across the nation started speaking and acting out against their inequality treatment. During the same time, African-Americans were standing up against segregation and for racial equality. Women were moving into the work force field, their education levels were increasing, the birth
This primarily affected African American children because their education system was different from the white children. Negro schools had many restrictions such as the reading matter being restricted to the used and discarded volumes of the libraries of the white community (Johnson 268). Based on attention to this advertisement through the perspective of race, I observe that African American children were falsely depicted in the 1930’s because they lack a proper education system and they were not socially equal. Education affected the child’s self-esteem and self-worth. According to Charles Johnson’s article, “Education of the Negro Child” about sixty-five percent of African American children are classified as retarded and the majority are retarded by more than one year (Johnson 266).
Also, black housing was significantly worse than white housing – 40% of black housing was substandard whilst only 12% of white housing was. This shows how their treatment as second class citizens extended to every aspect of their lives. However, Christian churches helped provide education for black children in the