"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.
Due to the fact that many African Americans had many great talents that were passed down from generations and could not show them or use them. No one at the time could express there selves in the way that they really wanted to because they could face beating by their master. Many artist such as Langston Hughes had opened up and began to express their selves with poetry and new error of music called Jazz. Jazz was a way to also express ones feelings, pain, suffrage through the sound of music. “While it may have contributed to a certain relaxation of racial attitudes among young whites, perhaps its greatest impact was to reinforce race pride among blacks.” (Richard Wormser) This gave blacks a reassurance that it is okay to be proud of your color and that one day things would be different between the two race.
Race Woman Shirley Graham DuBois’ Theater Career Shirley Graham DuBois was an African American playwright, author, and composer. She had many jobs within the theater industry. She was involved in Black Theatre, where black women were unknown because the stories and plays that were written, were too private for the male dominate industry. Gerald Horne says: “More pointedly, black dramatists generally have had difficulty in overcoming the social and economic difficulty involved in mounting major productions. During the 1930s, for example, “most Black Theatre companies folded”.” Black Theatre was considered very low budget and of low economic status.
The First Black Characters Donald Bogle has written several incisive books and the depiction of African American film and television. Some of his works include Dorothy Dandridge a biography (1996), brown sugar: Eighty years of American female black superstars. In this essay Bogle describes stereotypes about black men and women in American movies. These movies did not have sound and were in black and white. They did not have a famous director or writers because they did not need them.
He rebelled against family about the career they had chosen for him, which lead him to also join the circuses. He went on to formed a blackface group, which was the first to offer minstrel shows into a fixed three-act form. Lastly, of the founders was Stephen Foster who while being a bookkeeper became successful for his songwriting and later joined Christy Minstrels where he wrote blackface minstrel show traditional songs at that time. They all seemed to have similarities coming from middle-class background and all seemed to not have success in theater or any other interests which had lead them to blackface minstrelsy. The parts of a blackface minstrel show was to present the black character as being stupid, as being laughable, as being a silly person.
Many black farmers could not obtain contracts for their crops. Due to a halt in government funding, already dilapidated black communities turned into slums and crime increased neighborhoods. Harlem, in New York City was known as the Mecca for artists and enthusiasts to come live and thrive. However, many black homeowners were not able to refinance their home for improvements and had to sell their homes below market value
If I was her, I would run away from that. She did not care about how people were going to see her. She made Americans see the dance that they do not know how to do. Today, I think there are still some people having racial discrimination in some areas. I had this experience when I was in high school.
A great contributor to this issue was racism among the white population. Whites in both the North and South felt that they should not have to compete with blacks for jobs and felt that they should be a submissive race like they were before. Many whites were horrified and insulted at the fact that blacks were trying to get employment in any other job other than farming and field
Moreover, there were also many problems limited the CIO success during the 1930s. Hopes of black workers for the CIO, however, were not realized because, due to racial discrimination, few African Americans found employment in the industries the CIO was organizing. Consequently, the CIO brought few black activists into their ranks. The CIO did organize a significant number of women; however,. Women were not encouraged to assume leadership roles in CIO unions, and little effort was made to organize workers in the service sectors, which tended to be dominated by
ETST 310 Black women’s studies Black women’s studies emerged in part because of the failure of women studies and black studies to address accurate and dependable information about the experiences of black women in America and everywhere else in the world. Black women felt ignored by both the black man and the white women during their radical liberation movements towards liberty and equality. In history women’s studies have exclusively focused mainly that is to say entirely on the lives and history of the white women. Because of things like that when “black” was used in context of a conversation or publication it was equated with the black male, while women was to the white female. These issues are what inevitably formed