Antebellum Black Community Analysis

This gave black people hope for a new better life in the Northern states where those laws weren’t enforced. This renaissance was a cultural party that helped expose black writers, musicians, poets, artists, etc. This changed the culture forever and the talent started to spillover within the black community. Art was pushed to its limits and was a form of a statement and representation.

Isabel Wilkerson is very thorough in this reading. She covers the exodus of blacks from the Deep South beginning with the First World War up to the end of the Civil Rights Movement, and even slightly beyond. Because this occurrence of migration lasted for generations, it was hard to see it while it was happening, and most of its participants were unaware that they were part of any analytical change in black American residency, but in the end, six million African Americans left the South during these years. And while Jim Crow is arguably the chief reason for this migration, the settings, skills, and outcomes of these migrants ranged as widely as one might expect considering the movement’s longevity. I liked Wilkerson’s depiction of Ida Mae,

Some African-Americans played for primarily white professional teams in the 19th century but were driven out due to racism (Raceball, 21). In the late 19th century 90 percent of African-Americans lived in the South. Rampant poverty and segregation in the South made the idea of black dominated baseball inconceivable. However, black baseball potential would soon be realized with the Great Migration—a movement beginning in the early 20th century that led African-Americans out of the South to Northern cities (Raceball, 28). In 1910, African-American Andrew Foster formed the Chicago American Giants and other African-Americans started team too.

Therefore, it was a pretty substantial plot size of land. If we were to research the exact area that was purchased by James Weeks, we would find that a lot of the existing structures existed during that time. Be it a school, church, hospital, library, apartment buildings or even grocery stores were all the stomping grounds of Weeksville. It was a safe haven for those who were trying to avoid the draft or the riots of 1863. The town was home to many black abolitionist leaders like Dr. Susan Smith McKinney, who was the state’s first African American female doctor and it was also home to the first New York City African American Police

Black Archives Reflection Touring the Black Archives at the university was an enlightening and insightful experience. I got to fulling comprehend the depth of the impact this university has had on the black community and how it has aided to our progression as a people through the decades. It was shocking to find out that parts of the land this university was founded on, used to be a slave plantation. Duval Hall, where the Black Archives building currently presides, originally was a mansion owned by the slave masters family.

The Great Migration and/in the Congregation The Great Migration was the migration occurred within the United States between 1910 and 1970 which saw the displacement of about seven million African Americans from the southern states to those in the North, Midwest and West. The reasons that led thousands of African Americans to leave the southern states and move to the northern industrial cities were both economic and social, related to racism, job opportunities in the industrial cities and the search of better lives, the attempts to escape racism and the Jim Crow Laws that took them away the right to vote. As every social phenomena, the Great Migration had both positive and negative effects; in my opinion the Great Migration can be considered a negative development in the short and medium term, but, if we analyze the benefits brought to the African-American communities in the long term, their fight for integration has shaped the history of the United States in its progress to democracy and civil rights.

Black activism rose greatly during the Reconstruction. Before the dreadful Civil war, African Americans could vote in only the higher Northern states, because of segregation Sadly, they had no office holders. Because of this, many blacks organized Equal Rights Leagues throughout the South, during the first two years of the Reconstruction. Regulating the lives of freed people, the Congress created “black codes”. Black activism grew a lot!

African-Americans, both free and runaway slaves volunteered for the war in great numbers. From October, around 180,000 African-Americans served in the U.S. Army, and 18,000 in the Navy. Americans covered 10% of the entire Army by the end of the war, and nearly 40,000 died over the time of the war. Soldiers were given a pay which was dependant on there skin for example a ‘white Union private made thirteen dollars a month; his black counterpart made seven dollars until Congress rectified the discrepancy in 1864.

More than 200,000 African Americans were deployed to France during WW1. Their service stirred black pride and raised the African American community 's political and social expectations, even though it did little to improve race relations in the U.S. More of the country 's racial demographics changed considerably as a result of the war. New jobs in manufacturing and other industries, combined with a shortage of cheap European labor, translated into opportunities for African Americans in New York, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago and other northern side cities. Drawn by the potential for better pay and living conditions, approximately half a million southern black agricultures moved north from 1914 to 1920 in what is known as the Great Migration.

Until the 20th century many people were not given all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The rich and the caucasian men were given all of the rights, the privileges, and the responsibilities. The African American men and women were slaves or very unwealthy. The Native American men and women had already been kicked off their land. They had to stay in their small pieces of land, that didn’t have anything they started with, like rich soil to grow maize or much water from streams.

African Americans in Pensacola were faced with a wave of white supremacy as the beginning of the 20th century approached. The article “Belmont Delivviers: Reflection in Segregation History” produces a great deal of information relating to the development of Pensacola during this era. While reading this article, you see the author attempt to show how segregation has benefited the town of Pensacola. African American shop owners began to grow in numbers due to the support developed by the black shoppers of these segregated districts. Unlike Calvin’s article, the information here relates to a time after the antebellum south of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.

Americans, whether they like it or not, share their living spaces with individuals from a multitude of different backgrounds, such as Hispanics and Latinos and African Americans and so on and so forth. This living situation, however, has been set in place since before the 1960s, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his letter “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.” Back in the 1960s, a large number of white people did not want to and would not live within the same community as black American citizens, and this racism towards the black population spanned further than just neighborhoods. Racism was rampant throughout the streets of America, and for the longest time, being an American meant living in a nation that was divided by color and, ultimately, status; those who were white were superior and those who were not were lower. America now, while integrated and preaching equality, still contains racism on mass levels, and to be an American now means having to face the reality that equality has still not been reached in society.

From the time Richard was born to the present day, there have been many advances in black equality, but racism and discrimination are still very apparent in our society today. There has been an increase in black pride and the encouragement for blacks to advance in social status, but a majority of blacks still remain in the bottom sector of the economic and social class. Richard Wright was born after the Civil War, but before the Civil Rights Movement. If he were writing an autobiography today about a black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about the positive increase of African American pride and empowerment, but also the unjust and sanctioned police brutality, and the growing poverty among most blacks.

In the early 1890’s the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal. This means that blacks and whites used different restaurants, hotels theatres, and hotels. Blacks were considered inferior to white people and got less money from the government. The black schools and hospitals were considerably subpar to the white public places. Jim Crows laws in the South allowed this type of segregation and inequity to occur.

African Americans migrated north because the South treated them like slaves, much worse than the north. In the north, they could work in steel mills, shipyard, plants, railroads, auto facilities and mines instead of the south cotton fields and kitchens. They also had many family and friends telling how wonderful it was and that they needed to move. After the Mexican revolted again Dictator Porfino Diaz in 1910, it initiated a ten year war so may Mexicans migrated north.