African Americans In The 20th Century

During the Civil Rights Movement African American were the ones in risk of being killed. Yes, everybody is in risk of being killed by natural disasters, but not everybody during that time were at endanger of being killed because of their race and beliefs. This is the reasons why we fight for our lives as African Americans because we were and still are discriminated by, disrespected, racially profiled, and killed for no reason on a daily basis. The police couldn’t do anything but stand there, because they couldn’t call anybody on themselves.

• The ethnic group I have decided to research is African Americans. I chose this ethnic group because I only know what I know about them through what I have learned in school over the years. Also, I find them to be one of the most commonly misunderstood ethnic groups around in today’s world with current events that are making people look differently on them. The purpose of my research to learn about African Americans and gain information on them that I do not already know about them. My thesis is through my questions I will discover very interesting about this ethnic group.

Black people worked hard to get the rights that all Americans are supposed to have. The Civil Rights Movement Black people fought these laws from the start. For example, many people refused to use businesses that were unfair to black people. After a little more than a year, bus companies no longer forced black people to sit in the back. To do it, they had to change their rules and serve black people the same way they served white people.

During the 20th century the American identity took very many turns with racism being reborn, racial reconstruction taking place as seen in the Harlem renaissance, the economy skyrocketing during the ROARING twenties, and the economy also plummeting during the great depression. Of those positives and negatives, the cause can be related quick and not smart wise judgement on people and life. For example in the case of the Harlem Renaissance the racist Americans were judgmental of the blacks and believed they were superior and had a negative response which led to KKK being reborn and stricter laws on them like the Jim Crow laws. And also in the twenties many people took loans that were not smart and they knew they couldn’t pay back which led to

Before the American Civil War happened close to four million African-Americans were slaves. At the turn of the century the Naturalization Act of 1970 allowed only white men to vote. After the Civil War the thirteenth (1865), fourteenth (1868) and fifteenth (1870) amendments were passed, allowing African-American males to vote and have citizenship, which also led to ending slavery. Even after the ending of slavery, there were still some white men who tried to keep white supremacy alive thereby dehumanizing and alienating African-Americans from the mainstream of people. Even after African-Americans were given all their rights, there were still problems with racial segregation.

In the early nineteenth century, a new pattern of family arose based primarily on companionship and affection. Many of productive tasks and jobs of married women were assumed by unmarried women working in factories, and the workplace moved some distance from the household. So, a new kind of urban middle class family had begun to emerge and a new division of domestic roles appeared, which assigned the wife to care full-time for her children and to maintain the home. The divorce rate during the early and mid-nineteenth century began to rise, many states adopted permissive divorce statutes and judicial divorce replaced legislative divorce. If marriages were to rest on mutual affection, then it divorce had to serve as a safety valve from loveless and abusive marriages.

Climacteric means crucial and encountered means faced. Three people encountered climacteric life changing events in the three excerpts named I never had it made, Guts, and Warriors don’t cry. Jackie Robinson, Gary Paulsen, and Melba Beal’s all faced crucial turning points in their life that affected themselves as a person, but also their country. Jackie Robinson faced racism while playing in the major leagues, these turning affected Jackie as a person and also the people around him. A turning point that affected Jackie was when Robinson said, ‘’there were threats against” he and his family and, “even out to out physical harm” made to him.

Most researchers believe The Great Migration began at the end of the Reconstruction era. African Americans moved in droves from the rural South, in hopes of attaining social and economic opportunity. The South’ oppressive caste system, a prevalence of prejudice, and segregation in public places contributed to the intolerable conditions. In addition, when the U.S. entered World War I in 1917 jobs that were previously held by white males became available and the industrial expansion in the North provided opportunities created jobs for African Americans. Many settled northern states, New York, was popular, particularly in the district of Harlem.

The American Dream was a myth for African Americans, newly arrived immigrants and Native Americans during the time period of 1865 through the 1900s. These groups faced discrimination as they were denied their rights of freedom, opportunity, equality, and lastly, their human rights. For example, some newcomers such as Asian immigrants were denied opportunity, freedom, and their human rights due to both discrimination and laws passed by the US Congress. For many African Americans, the American Dream was a myth due to the fact that their human rights and their chances for opportunity were denied.

The development of Africa played a prominent role in the rise of its civilization. What defines a well structured civilization is having a good writing system, culture, and technology. Researchers believe that African peoples traveled as far as across the ocean and into the Americas bringing these with them. Since Africa was so diverse, the influence of other societies had a great impact in language and writing. One component that helped civilization rise is the environment.