Arican America History
African American History 1865 to Present
Finally being free from slavery of the hard ships of not being claimed as human beings but as property that endured in harsh whippings as punishment and being sold from their families enduring harsh whippings, no pay, no rights, and could not own guns or really anything of that manner. With the help of Abraham Lincoln the Emancipation of Proclamation the African Americans finally had a chance to become something more than just property; even though it did not free all slaves yet sum slaves got there freedom papers. With the Emancipation Proclamation at hand for African Americans the whites were worried that no work would get done any more, and blacks would want revenge on them because of the hardships of oppression over hundreds of years. Besides that black people worked hard over the years of being sold and working for nothing and being treated as if they were property to now become middle class and demand respect from the white people who ones thought of them as not equals.
With all the African American civil liberty movements taking place this helped to improve education and employment opportunities, and establish electoral power. After the abolishment of slavery was ended in the south black communities saw tremendous change in the fortunes of the black people. Thanks to Abraham Lincoln using the 13th amendment to abolish slavery and having faith that African Americans could live among whites as equals even though the Emancipation Proclamation was in the early stages of being worked out.
After coming along way from 1865 The African American civil Rights movement after the civil War reform movements in the United States aimed to get rid of racial discrimination of the black people, with the leaders Martin Luther King jr, and Malcolm X they help to give African American’s an even louder voice to speak up to be treated as equals. Martin Luther King jr believed in a nonviolent way to get the fair treatment they
Finally being free from slavery of the hard ships of not being claimed as human beings but as property that endured in harsh whippings as punishment and being sold from their families enduring harsh whippings, no pay, no rights, and could not own guns or really anything of that manner. With the help of Abraham Lincoln the Emancipation of Proclamation the African Americans finally had a chance to become something more than just property; even though it did not free all slaves yet sum slaves got there freedom papers. With the Emancipation Proclamation at hand for African Americans the whites were worried that no work would get done any more, and blacks would want revenge on them because of the hardships of oppression over hundreds of years. Besides that black people worked hard over the years of being sold and working for nothing and being treated as if they were property to now become middle class and demand respect from the white people who ones thought of them as not equals.
With all the African American civil liberty movements taking place this helped to improve education and employment opportunities, and establish electoral power. After the abolishment of slavery was ended in the south black communities saw tremendous change in the fortunes of the black people. Thanks to Abraham Lincoln using the 13th amendment to abolish slavery and having faith that African Americans could live among whites as equals even though the Emancipation Proclamation was in the early stages of being worked out.
After coming along way from 1865 The African American civil Rights movement after the civil War reform movements in the United States aimed to get rid of racial discrimination of the black people, with the leaders Martin Luther King jr, and Malcolm X they help to give African American’s an even louder voice to speak up to be treated as equals. Martin Luther King jr believed in a nonviolent way to get the fair treatment they