Weekd 5 Historical Report
African Americans
John Doe
Eth 125/Cultural Diversity
September 29, 2012
Instructor: Darlene Kembel Smook
African Americans In this paper, I will be writing about the African American racial group. The paper will be written from the perspective of a news reporter. Topics which will be covered in this paper include: experiences of this racial group throughout U.S. history; Political, social, and cultural issues and concerns of this group throughout U.S. history; legislation aimed at constraining race within prejudicial boundaries and how various groups fought the legislation; and legislation aimed at alleviating prejudicial boundaries and how various groups promoted this legislation.
Experiences of this Racial Group throughout U.S. History African Americans have been dealt a very tough deck of cards. If a person were to stop and think about it, they did start the American Dream as slaves, but then again I guess this was before there was even an America. During the 1600s, African Americans were forcibly brought over to the “New World” by the Dutch (Hammond 175). Slavery, however, did not totally expand until the 1600-to the mid-1700s. After the Civil War, African Americans’ were granted freedom; freedom being a supposed “40 acres and a mule.” I strongly doubt everyone got theirs. They freed a people, who all they knew, was slave labor. They were basically tossed to the wolves, and forced to find a way. As time progressed, they did.
The despairing conditions of African Americans in the post-slavery United States ignited the Great Migration of the early 20th century; which led to a movement to fight hostility, prejudice and discrimination against African Americans that (Civil Rights Act of 1866). The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 was focused at eradicating racial discrimination against African Americans. African Americans marched in protest to put pressure on President Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson (Krochmal 925). The passage of the Civil Rights
John Doe
Eth 125/Cultural Diversity
September 29, 2012
Instructor: Darlene Kembel Smook
African Americans In this paper, I will be writing about the African American racial group. The paper will be written from the perspective of a news reporter. Topics which will be covered in this paper include: experiences of this racial group throughout U.S. history; Political, social, and cultural issues and concerns of this group throughout U.S. history; legislation aimed at constraining race within prejudicial boundaries and how various groups fought the legislation; and legislation aimed at alleviating prejudicial boundaries and how various groups promoted this legislation.
Experiences of this Racial Group throughout U.S. History African Americans have been dealt a very tough deck of cards. If a person were to stop and think about it, they did start the American Dream as slaves, but then again I guess this was before there was even an America. During the 1600s, African Americans were forcibly brought over to the “New World” by the Dutch (Hammond 175). Slavery, however, did not totally expand until the 1600-to the mid-1700s. After the Civil War, African Americans’ were granted freedom; freedom being a supposed “40 acres and a mule.” I strongly doubt everyone got theirs. They freed a people, who all they knew, was slave labor. They were basically tossed to the wolves, and forced to find a way. As time progressed, they did.
The despairing conditions of African Americans in the post-slavery United States ignited the Great Migration of the early 20th century; which led to a movement to fight hostility, prejudice and discrimination against African Americans that (Civil Rights Act of 1866). The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 was focused at eradicating racial discrimination against African Americans. African Americans marched in protest to put pressure on President Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson (Krochmal 925). The passage of the Civil Rights
References: Civil Rights Act of 1866. (2009). Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1 Hammond, J. (2012). Slavery, Settlement, and Empire. Journal Of The Early Republic, 32(2), 175-206. KROCHMAL, M. (2010). An Unmistakably Working-Class Vision: Birmingham 's Foot Soldiers and Their Civil Rights Movement. Journal Of Southern History, 76(4), 923-960. Alex-Assensoh, Y. M. (2009). African Immigrants and African-Americans: An Analysis of Voluntary African Immigration and the Evolution of Black Ethnic Politics in America. African & Asian Studies, 8(1/2), 89-124.