Problems African Americans Faced In The 1920s

After America was founded in 1776 many people decided to colonize and live in this unfamiliar land. The land already had their own natives, but most of the travelers that colonized there did not respect or care about them or their land. The people wanted to make this land their property and country. To have a strong country people needed power and one thing that made that power more accessible was enslaving the natives and making them their property. Enslaving natives later become part of their culture and it later spread to enslaving African-Americans. African-Americans were seen as people that were stronger and more hard working than the Native Americans. This led to African-Americans getting captured and being sent to America to work.

A Free African named Dred Scott was accused of being a former slave and was put on trial. The Chief justice, Roger Taney, was extremely biased for the Slave owners because he thought slavery helped America immensely. With his opinion, the verdict was that free states don’t exist and that he is a slave in any state. This verdict forced Dred Scott back into slavery when he was a free man. This event is significant because this court case was during the Mexican American war which fought over the annexation of a slave state and Dred Scott forced back into slavery shows that Slave owners and the Supreme Court justice will stop at nothing to make sure slavery is consistent and successful in America. Abolitionists were frustrated because of all the work been done to abolish slavery has shown to be useless based off of the events that are happening around them. Also, the verdict came out bad for the abolitionists, therefore; there's no telling what Slave owners can do that can influence the government to accustom to their

Examine the condition of African-Americans in the late nineteenth century and explain why the Thirteenth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Fifteenth Amendment, which were enacted to aid the new freedmen, actually did little.

The African American experience is one that is quite different from other racial/ ethnic groups. The majority of the first African American came over, unwillingly, on ships from various African countries. They were brought to America by white, European settlers to be used as slaves in an order to plant and harvest their crops and make money for the white man. This racial group was treated as if they were property and not people. However, with the ending of the American Civil War, African Americans gained freedom, freedom that not all white American were quite ready to handle. After gaining their freedom came the need for education, jobs and suffrage rights. Now in America this racial group has come a long way, having elected its first African American present for two terms, yet still there are many issues that are very prevalent. This racial group has been fighting their way to equality since the birth of this nation. African Americans have experienced an array of conflict, violence, stereotypes, prejudice acts, and discrimination against them throughout their history in America.

Dred Scott sued his owner for freedom, which the courts normally allowed at the time. However, when the case came to the Supreme Court, they decided that Scott would remain a slave in light of the fact that he was not a citizen and could not legitimately sue in the government courts. Sadly, but true, slaves were not looked at as human beings, instead looked at as property. Because of this slave owners felt they should not be free because they were never citizens to begin with.

In the case of Dred Scott vs. Sandford, Dred Scott sued Sanford for freedom on the fact that Sandford took them into a state where slavery was forbidden for military assignments. This case lasted approximately 11 years until the court ruled that Scott was not free. It was ruled that black men have no opportunity for equal rights especially for a slave. This made black folk and some white folk very disappointed. This decision had great impact though because it gave some people the courage to stand up for equal rights. This eventually caused violent protest because of the court's decision around the nation.

For many years, there has been diversity between the different races in America. Slavery was a vast part of racism. Slavery is when African-Americans were forced to do work that others didn’t want to. In nineteen sixties, a substantial movement occured. This movement was the Civil Right.

Some social limitations African Americans went through in the late 1800s was that job opportunities were scarce. If one eventually did find a job, there was almost no chance of earning the income a white man would. Restrictions weren’t only found in employment as many African Americans also had to stay away from segregated places and their children were put in separate schools in fear of being sent to jail. the Jim crow laws are an example of discrimination and segregation towards African Americans.

In the mid 19th century racism had started to occur. Then it quickly transferred into slavery where than African Americans were slaves to the whites. The African Americans were not brought to America by choice but because the whites decided to use them for slavery. Some whites would trade them for any house supplies they needed, and they were sold to the colonist of Europe. Where then they had labor work that needed to be done, African’s did not get a wage for doing this labor. There was a law that Africans were not considered humans, but objects that worked. When Americans won the land from the british, Africans were not exactly free from slavery. Slavery was a hard subject to talk about but they still did not receive the respect they needed. They were not even

They at that point confronted the test of making due in a general public that had pronounced each of them to be private property and that was sorted out to keep up their subservient status. According to the law and of most non-African Americans, they had no specialist to settle on choices about their own particular lives and could be purchased, sold, tormented, remunerated, instructed, or murdered at a slaveholder's will. All the most pivotal things in the lives of the oppressed African American-from the respect of their day by day work to the valor of their protection, from the solaces of family to the quest for craftsmanship, music, and love all must be proficient despite slave society's endeavour to deny their

African American face a lot of hardship. Police brutality is one of them. Police would see a black person waking down the street minding there own business and they would beat them up for no reason or the reason was because they were black. Some other hardship is not being treated equity. In the text it say that “ whites were able to do more things the black people.” So that’s the hardship that black people had to face.

According to King, the hardships he faces were freedom. For example, King states in the article, "Negros still is not free one hundred years later..." King took a lot of sacrifices for his people. Also another hardship King and African Americans faced were the victims of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. Which means that African Americans were being brutalized by the police and couldn't do anything about it. King hold truths that all men were created equally and it should be kept like that. Finally, this is what hardships African Americans had faced.

Each group of people in the world has endured hardships by the hands of there people and African americans are not different. The history of african americans in the united states have been all but a good one. These people have a history of being forcibly removed from their native homeland to go work and help build a foreign land that was not theirs.

April 12, 1961 marked the tightening of the tensions between African American slaves and the free white man. The American civil war was fought to keep the peace between the Industrial north and the rural south. The south decided to leave the Union out of the fear they would lose their economic power, the slave labor force. Eventually this fear would become reality four years later when they lost their fight. The slaves were freed and given the same rights as the white men and women living in America. The slaves, who have never been free before in their lives, didn't know or practice their rights to their full potential.

In the past racism was something of the norm, from being treated like animals to also being taken as a joke. We as African Americans have gone through it all, and today I as a proud African American will talk about the uprising and the downfalls of my people. Anyhow during the uproar of segregation African Americans encountered degrading acts towards them as bad as seeing their moms, dads, brothers, and sisters being lynched. However such terrifying acts came to a minor halt when the murder of Emmett Till arose.