How Has Race Relations Changed Since The 1930s

It has come to my attention that not everyone is this world is receiving equality and getting justice. Over the last few years the numbers of innocent people especially African Americans being killed have risen dramatically. The whole Black Lives Matter issue started after George Zimmerman was found not guilty for the killing of Trevon martin. Once that situation took place everything started to go downhill and police brutality just kept getting worse towards the African race. If everyone would look at people the same instead of by the color of their skin they maybe things could go a lot smoother and innocent people would not be getting killed.

Another success was in 1955 when the court decreed that desegregation in the southern states should proceed. Next, there were nine African American students chosen to attend an all-white school in Arkansas in 1957. Although it was not an easy task for the new students,

One man who worked vigorously to acquire his dream was Martin Luther King Jr. His dream was for equality to every citizen and with all of his hard work, it paid off (Meacham). The beliefs of the American Dream vary from group to group; person to person (Rodriguez). For instance, whites are less likely to believe in the American Dream than non-whites. New people coming into the country see their life here as the American Dream. However for the people who have been here longer, think of the dream more related to wealth than the traditional values (Rosenfeild).

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People willing to help the Brown family and filed their case happened in February 28, 1951. However the case started off slow processed, the case getting bigger and friends and family got the news about the case and wanted to help and support The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Brown family as well. The U.S District Court for the District of Kansas heard about Brown’s case around June 25-26, 1951. The Federal District Court decided that segregation for educations were harmful to the black children. However all black and white schools have the same buildings, teachers, and the transportation, the segregation were

Police violence on African American males in the U.S. has only seemed to have increased in the past years in this country and researchers wanted to see the type of impact it has had in these African American communities. The study mainly focused on the beating of Frank Jude in the Milwaukee area but also analyzed the impact of three other beatings and how phone calls to 911 were affected. If calls to 911 are suppressed because of these shootings in these communities then it is putting the entire public in danger. Throughout this paper I will being going over many different subjects such as how the experiment was set up, the effects on phone calls after the Frank Jude beating, and also the effect on phone calls in the other three cases as

The Los Angeles riots began on April 29, 1992. The riots started because four white police officers beat Rodney King, an African American. Rodney had been pulled over by police after an eight-mile chase and then refused to get to the ground. A man had videotaped the scene and it was broadcasted in the United States (Wallenfeldt). Jeff Wallenfeldt, the author of the article published on Britannica, wrote, “Although many Angelenos in the late 20th century prided themselves on their city’s ethnic diversity, there was a strong feeling on Los Angeles’s minority communities that the city’s predominantly white police force practiced racial profiling and engaged in racist brutality against African Americans and Hispanics” (Wallenfeldt).

Throughout history, African Americans have been wrongfully convicted of crimes. The Jim Crow era made it extremely hard for African Americans to live a peaceful life. Today, if African Americans are wrongly convicted about a crime or an issue, they do not make it to trial. Their trial beings when they are assaulted by law enforcement, the new lynch mob, Police corruption and brutality has been an ongoing problem within the United States frequently. Though African American youth have been targeted by the police, these events are happening all too often.

The belief that vigilantism is justifiable becomes reinforced by pop culture, through Batman, Dexter and Died Hard. The fact that there are more criminals the police officers, and more crimes than the system can handle, persists in the human conscious. Pseudo vigilantism also finds a clash, between actual police and civilian vigilantes. In Seattle, Phoenix Jones dresses up in black tights and dons a red mask to protect his city, but Jones is routinely arrested and has even gone to trial for assault (Moore, 2009). George Zimmerman’s trial was national headlines for weeks, as the legality of his vigilantism was debated.

Racism has always been a popular topic throughout the course of American history. It may be arguable that African Americans have gained the equality they have fought for, and in more extreme cases, died for. Richard Wright was born after the Civil War, but before the Civil Rights Movement. If he were writing an autobiography today, in 2016, about a black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about the mass incarceration of black men, the discrepancy faced by African Americans with a college degree compared to the whites without, and the difference in wage distribution between white Americans and African Americans. If Richard were to write his autobiography today, he would mention the harsher penalties given to black people compared

Fewer than one in three black Americans and not even half of whites say the United States has made “ a lot of progress towards racial equality.” Today 50 years after the passage of the voting Rights Act, roughly six in ten Americans (59%) say the country needs to continue making changes to achieve racial equality. “ Most whites believe minorities already have equal opportunity.” Orfield said but “the peak of equity in college happened back in the 1970s, there are very large gaps today.” In 1960, black men were five times as likely as white men to being local, state or federal prison. Fifty years later, black men are six times as likely as white men to be in local state or federal prison. Fifty years later, black men are six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated and hispanic men three times as likely. The schools of black children have been steadily resegregating and have weaker graduation rates, less qualified teachers and weaker educational offerings.