The Sanitation Workers ' Strike Of 1968

Prior to the world of industrialization, many minorities, particularly African Americans (since the case study was about an African woman and man) in the United States of America worked on farms in the rural communities helping with farm work in order to produce large amounts of wheat, cotton, tobacco, foods, etc. Many adults and children were outside working long hours. When the world shifted towards a much faster pace in machinery and people, the demand was to move African Americans from rural communities to urban communities. The shift began because there was a demand of supply in the fast moving pace work environment. In addition, the demand of supplies varied from the North to the South. In the 1950s and 1960s, majority of the African Americans were fighting for equal rights, such as voting and housing rights which also played a factor on work and

Most blacks could not start at the top of the economical ladder, but had to start at the bottom and work their way to the top. While some blacks could take the higher ranking jobs, the majority had to rely on manual

According to the film “At the River I stand,” the Memphis Sanitation Strike represents the rise of black union against unfair and injustice treatments from the white society. In the Memphis Sanitation Strike, black people organized voluntarily at the beginning to fight against their employers for inhuman working conditions, and demand for fundamental human rights for blacks. As a nonviolent leader in the black community, Martin Luther King upheld his faith and principle throughout the entire movement as well as throughout his life. King’s death served as a turning point in the in the intense antagonism between whites and blacks. Through King’s death, black people realized the power of nonviolence and eventually obtain the agreement of union

Some though that didn’t pass of as white were treated as black people were. Blacks were treated like they are aliens that didn’t belong. Growers did not treat them for what they really were. They only wanted them for the work migrant workers had to offer. Overtime migrant workers have succeeded to become a union.

In 1879 Thousands of African Americans migrate out of south to escape oppression. There was a better way life and opportunities in the industrialized North and in the West. African American weren’t taught to read so their job opportunities were limited. White people believed teaching blacks to read would hold blacks back. They were forced to be home makers (maids for white people) or

Blacks were treated with tremendous cruelty in many different ways. Black lives before the civil rights movement were treated cruel and unfair. African Americans did not have the same opportunities that they have today. Before the movement they could not get an education, a good job, or a place to live. These men and women who worked for white landowners were pretty much treated like slaves. They were barely paid anything for the work that they did. Many blacks lived in the streets and did not even have a place to get out of the weather. Due to these factors many blacks lived in poverty and were treated very cruel. A staff Writer wrote, “For black Americans, the pre-Civil Rights era was a time of danger and turmoil, as they set out to claim

The separation of amenities were extremely humiliating to the Black, they were treated as “sub-humans”. One part of the documentary that stood out to me was when the man just wanted to get a cup of coffee, he had to go through the back of the story, but was then denied service just because he was Black.

One-hundred years before it was socially acceptable for white people to own people with dark skin, forcing them to partake in grueling, harsh physical labor. Then the abolitionist movement came and changed the ethics and morals of those ideas that were viewed as acceptable at the time. African-Americans were freed, but were still limited in rights. After many protests and many acts that would now be considered hate crimes, they were given equal rights. In a relatively short period of one hundred-fifty years, African Americans went from being treated as if they were work-horses or pigs, to being treated as normal American citizens, and the ethics of how African Americans are treated all changed, and if people treat African Americans in such a way again, it would be considered unconstitutional and a hate crime, showing how much ethics

As times got tough, people reverted to racism and discrimination to appear superior. As a result of this, African Americans were deprived and forced into poverty based on skin color. White men of the time used

Although blacks occupied most fields of employment, they were generally barred from many of the higher status positions. Those blacks who broke the social realm like

Once African American’s were freed they faced many social obstacles. Blacks wanted to immediately be given the same treatment to whites in the workforce, such as have one day off per week so they could have more free time with their families. Blacks had more than the right to request time off, but some whites in American thought that this request was unreasonable, mostly because white people now lacked the ability to exploit black labor (Ransom221). After slavery ended the South was in short supply for

Economic oppression against blacks occurred out of white’s prejudice for African Americans. Most economic inequality between races advanced from an unequal opportunity in the labor force. This was because African Americans were not given the same chance as whites for similar jobs. In the 1950’s at least 75 percent of African American men “in the labor force were employed in unskilled jobs.” A few of these jobs included janitors, porters, cooks, and machine operators. However, only 25 percent of white males had jobs which did not require many skills. The disparity between women was also significant. 20 percent of black women were paid service workers while only 10 percent of white women maintained the same job. The two most significant l reasons African Americans were economically oppressed was because they were denied access to numerous jobs and the

This was the period of post-slavery, early twentieth century, in southern United States where blacks were still treated by whites inhumanly and cruelly, even after the abolition laws of slavery of 1863. They were still named as ‘color’. Nothing much changed in African-American’s lives, though the laws of abolition of slavery were made, because now the slavery system became a way of life. The system was accepted as destiny. So the whites also got license to take disadvantages and started exploiting them sexually, racially, physically, and economically. During slavery, they were sold in the slave markets to different owners of plantation and were bound to be separated from each other. Thus they lost their nation, their dignity, and were dehumanized and exploited by whites.

Thesis Statement: In this paper, I’m going to explore how the Civil Rights Movement first started, and the brutal events and forms of protest during this monumental moment in history. Looking at first-hand accounts from pivotal figures such as the leaders of the social movement organizations, I can properly recount the conditions and struggles in the fight for equality for African Americans. Covering these topics, I can properly describe the effects that came from each movement and the change that subsequently followed. Brown v. Board:

The worker’s rights movement saw two different challenges: the banning of child labor and the improvement of the working classes conditions. The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) was created in 1904, their primary goal was to raise awareness to the pressing issue of children slaving away in factories. They hired Lewis Hine, a photographer, to begin a ten-year campaign to show the extreme circumstances of the children’s work in factories. The NCLC worked together with the Department of Labor to broadcast and press the issue of child labor. Together the NCLC, the Department of Labor and the general public pressure caused the Keating-Owen Act to be passed in 1916, banning interstate trade with any products made in a factory who used child