African American Freedom Analysis

African American “Freedom”
" I think it is better to see integration as the inclusion of all citizens into the same sphere of rights, the same range of opportunities and possibilities that our Founding Fathers themselves enjoyed. Integration is not social engineering or group entitlements: it is a fundamental absence of arbitrary barriers to freedom” (Cozic 206-207). Cozic states this in his book, Civil Liberties: Opposing Viewpoints, this quote means that rights should be given to anyone because just like our Founding Fathers had their rights and no opposition was created within their lives, we should have those same rights. No matter what a person’s race is, there should be equality within the rights of gaining freedom, citizenship, and
African Americans now that they have gained citizenship in the United States, count as one whole person in the House of Representatives (History.com Staff). They use to be only counted at three fifths of a person, which still gave the southern states an advantage but now because of them becoming a full person there is now a greater advantage to the south in the House of Representatives, even though they would end up voting for whatever party Lincoln was in because Lincoln set them free, so they will vote for that elective for that party. The southerners had a greater impact in the House of Representatives but, the Southerners had a huge issue with African Americans receiving this right to participate in American politics. Once African Americans were free they migrated north because they felt more secure ("Freedom & Emancipation"). The northern radical whig republican party was formed and increasing in numbers because of the restrictions the southerns were putting on the African Americans(History.com Staff). The southerners thought they were being smart by creating restrictions on African Americans by making voting almost nearly impossible for them. The literacy tests were created and intended to destroy the XV amendment. These tests were administered to African Americans and poor whites, if the scores were not
Technology that the whites had, African Americans also tried to use. Many whites culture and way of life was tried to be done in African Americans so they could conform to be the “normal” American that the whites were (Harding,219). Many laws were created to have that barrier and make sure the whites’ especially those in the southern part of America would and stay. One of these laws is the Apprenticeship Law, which stated that whites could take African American children into labor for them ("Freedom & Emancipation." ). This meant that the African Americans would still be in some form of slavery. Organizations of people would also get together and do acts of destruction to the African Americans in more than one way. The Ku Klux Klan, or other wise known as The KKK, was an organization that was created in 1866 with one purpose, to remind everyone who is the superiority, whites. The KKK hurt many people not just African Americans but also whites, even though they were trying to show people that the whites were and they wanted to forever be above everyone else ("Ku Klux Klan."). Most of the KKK and other organizations, plans and disturbances were done in the south, because the northerns were accepting of the new amendments that were passed. Attacks were done in the minority of African Americans and there was similar organizations that did the