African American History 1865-current



African- American History

Introduction

The end of the end of the 19th century is the period of U.S. imperialist expansion, which the United States to the world stage: Civil Rights Movement, also translated as the "African-American civil rights movement, in 1955 -1968 years), part of the U.S. civil rights movement, the rise of the minorities in the United States.

Thesis Statement

African-Americans were considered as the minority and they had not get equal rights as compared to the White population.

Discussion

From the late 19th Century to the 1960s in the U.S. was a comprehensive system of segregation, African Americans were discriminated against by the whites in almost all areas of life. Fundamental changes tells the abolition of segregation and legal equality and, the involvement of the African-American minority incurred only in the mid- 1950s civil rights movement fight. Many problems at that time especially include the economic and educational disadvantage of African Americans and discrimination in everyday life and the White Supremacy ideology, but they are still and employed in American society today (Jansson, 2005).

Slavery from 1777 to 1865 in many individual steps was abolished by law. There are lots of slaves at the time of the founding of the United States. In the Northern States they were living lives unfree and they were the victims of slavery. Even those African Americans, who have been formally released, were because of poverty or because the slave masters they released only on this condition, often forced to be bonded laborers reissued in long-term dependence. Many former slave owners benefited from the fact that they could leave their formally free former slaves continued to work under exploitative conditions for themselves, without having to bear responsibility for them (Jansson, 2005). Depending kept many former slaves were the fact that slave owners to their spouses or children were still enslaved.

By 1865, African-Americans could not be considered as U.S. citizens. In the so-called free states, there were a number of discriminatory laws and practices that prevented sustained that blacks were integrated in a free society as equal. In many parts with the Northern free blacks were subjected to the same rules as slaves that they were subjected to curfews and travel restrictions. They were not eligible to vote and they were not members in juries and they would not testify in court.

The abolition of slavery and the equality of African Americans were so hesitant, even within the black community led to a split (Rochester, 1959). The living conditions of those African Americans who remain unpaid until the final resolution of slavery differed fundamentally from that of those who had already arrived soon after independence in freedom. The latter were emancipated and began to reconstruct the historical African life.

Over all differences, African Americans agreed with each other on the self-designation African. As an expression of their personal exemption and as an act of political challenge took these former slaves to new names. Instead of the stub and derogatory names that the holder had often given ...