Prejudice And Racism In The 1930's

African American individuals still faced inhumane discrimination and were often not looked at as people, let alone cared for or acknowledged. To anyone else, their opinions did not matter and their lives were not valued. The 1930?s was also a time in which America was being rebuilt after the detrimental effects of the Great Depression. Furthermore, there was a greater presence of African Americans in northern states, which brought about racial tension from powerful white figures who did not want African Americans in what they believed to be ?their cities?. The struggle to find jobs was present all over, and African Americans found it even more difficult to support themselves. The narrator faced all these obstacles throughout the course of this novel.

In the 1950’s there were over 15 million African Americans, all of which were seen as inferior and were treated as if they powerless. They were controlled in all ways of life and had to follow certain rules

The African Americans before World War Two were not treated equal. Before the depression they more and more African Americans began to seek jobs but this lead to many problems. There were rallies against companies hiring African Americans and very prominent wage gaps. “It was exactly what the white defenders called it: a “way of life” that included elements of culture, expectations of behavior, and a political economy that mocked the ideals of a democratic republic wherever Jim Crow ruled” (Moye 15). Even though there were laws in place for less racial segregation, most people still did not like African Americans. Many still worked on farms as sharecroppers or on tenant farms. This also led them to get hit hard and be very affected by the depression.

In the 1930s African Americans were not treated very well. They were losing all of their jobs, and kids were not able to go to a proper school. Some could not even attend school. African Americans were really impacted in the 1930s as they suffered from no jobs,not being able to vote for a while, and money and not having access to a good education, but as African Americans fought over the years, they finally got the rights they deserved.

After the World War II ended, America's economy boomed as the nation recovered from the war and the Great Depression. There was a rise of new communities mainly in the suburbs and the west and south. However, with this breakthrough in America's economy, the majority of the White community continued to deny the African Americans their basic human rights. African Americans’ social and economic gains were limited by racial prejudice. They were relegated to menial jobs by the men of the Navy and this did not change till America was far gone in the war.

Skilled jobs were practically impossible for most African-Americans to attain, leaving them low-paying and often dangerous jobs. From explicit examples to the subtler, the economic boom most of the country experienced after WWII did not apply for the majority of African-Americans looking for a job in Detroit. In one of the more explicit examples of clear racial segregation in terms of jobs was in the retail sector. African-Americans had a rough time attempting to get any sort of job within retail because of the “bad perception” store owners believed they gave off.

Though much of what Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of in 1963 has been realized in American society since, there still exists discrimination against minorities, especially around the area of economic equality. In the 1960’s, an African-American citizen's "basic mobility [are] from a smaller ghetto to a larger one" (King 210). This is still the case for many, despite great changes in race relations. The three main problems that minorities face in economic terms are higher unemployment rates than their white counterparts, wage gaps between white and African-American employees, and occupational segregation within career fields and companies based on race.

The dilemma facing African Americans during the first few decades after emancipation was profound. The post Civil War-Reconstruction era in the South was one where African Americans had political voting rights, members of Congress, and a vision for the future that would extend the principles of democratic government to all black people. Quickly though, it changed to a situation that was akin to slavery itself. With the removal of the Federal forces in the South following Reconstruction, the gains that were made eroded both political power and the civil rights of African Americans. Economically, millions of poor southern blacks were trapped in the sharecropping system structured to ensure that they provided cheap agriculture labor for the benefit of white landlords. Throughout the South, with the institution of the Jim Crow laws, blacks began to be excluded from all public accommodations, denied access to schools and other essential services, and restricted from living in certain residential areas. Essential to the racist assault against black people’s rights was lynching, fear and death.

In the 1930s, racism was one of society’s most pressing issues both in and out of the novel.

1941, Japan hit the U.S. naval base in the pacific ocean with bombs, crippling the U.S. 20,000 U.S. citizens with Japanese ancestors were locked up for over 3 years. Children, parents, grandparents were put into internment camps, later relocated to Santa Anita Racetrack (Lewis 7). There were many causes that created this “grave injustice,” but along the way there were also opportunities to avert the abuse of rights.

It’s common knowledge that people who have higher education are more likely to succeed, having better paying jobs. African Americans have one of lowest higher education graduation rate in the country, the NCES reported in 2009-2010 that the number of African American graduates was 164,844 compared to their Caucasian counterparts with 1,167,499. African Americans made up 10% of all graduates in 2010 (NCES 2012). Although the statistics show a huge gap between African Americans and Caucasian, African Americans are progressing and increasing

Introduction The purpose of this research is to identify the use of force and how body cameras affect that, so basically, is there any correlation between the two. Use of force in law enforcement has been around for quite some time, it never really gained national attention until the beating of Rodney King in 1991. From that point on the use of force in law enforcement has been scrutinized to the max. There have been many cases that saved officers careers but also showed them to be in the wrong.

Throughout America’s past, racial inequality has been a reoccurring theme in our society. Ever since the Europeans invaded America the white man has been superior compared to all ethnicities. No more than two hundred years ago, African Americans were slaves and only counted as three fifths of a person. Within the past hundred years African Americans have managed to obtain more equality in some situations, but in other cases racial inequality has become worse than it was when segregation took place. The gaps between the quality of education of white and black students receive appears to be growing instead of shrinking. The lack of quality education blacks receive has contributed to significant health differences between

In education, white people have always been at an advantage compared to other races. African-American have had quite a setback in prior years. There was a time when African-American weren’t even allowed to learn how to write or read in our country just because of the color of their skin. There has been quite the improvement from those times in terms of African-Americans obtaining an education. According to Essentials of Sociology, only about 20 percent of African-Americans had a high school diploma in the year of 1960. The number has increased significantly to roughly 82 percent in 2013. That percentage represents a significant change that shows how our nation has progressed throughout the years. However, you are still at a set back if you aren’t white. “Black students were expelled at three times the rate of white students” (Hsieh, 2014).

Abraham Lincoln said “... all men are created equal” in the Gettysburg Address and many of us take this to true yet here in the 21 century we still allow this. Ethnicity largely influences the quality of the job you get as well as the income you will receive in the workforce. Currently African American men working full time, year round get paid an average of 75.3 percent comparable to caucasian men, according to the U.S. Current Population Survey and the National Committee on Pay Equity.The unemployment rate for African Americans is typically at about twice that of Caucasians whom also have many substantial advantages at work. They are offered a substantially larger variety of job opportunities and positions that earn more money and have more power. This form of inequality exists in both gender and race. Though the pay gap has been reduced drastically within the last few years, it still remains a very common form of inequality