During the Reconstruction era, blacks were beginning to gain their human rights. In 1868, the fourteenth amendment gave them equal protection under the law and two years later, the fifteenth amendment allowed them the right to vote. This frustrated many whites, so the Jim Crow Laws came into effect during the late nineteenth century. Reconstruction […]
Over time there has been many issues that the United States have established regarding races and what they can and can’t do. To begin with, one issue that holds a huge importance to this day is the United States creating laws regarding school education, to either children or adults entering colleges/universities. The United States didn’t […]
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Get startedThe early 1900’s were a rough time for blacks in Montgomery, Alabama, and all over the world for that matter. Segregation had become a natural way of life in many states, but especially Alabama. Blacks were tormented, seperated, and always second best. Until one woman’s innocent soul, had finally had it. The Mother of the […]
During Reconstruction, there was a significant increase of African Americans holding positions very close to white people. They had the right to vote, they held public office, and they sought legislative changes. Jim Crow Laws were a collection of state and local rules that legalized racial segregation, just after all of the progress that was […]
Abstract Federal government officials have noted there is a great unfair disparity amongst, African Americans and other minority group entering or already in the juvenile justice system compared to Caucasian Americans (karger stoesz 2018, p.365). Recovery from slavery is a massive task for most African Americans in America because they were considered non-citizens which further […]
My Story is an autobiography written by Rosa Mcauley Parks, a strong name in the African American civil-rights activist. Rosa’s life growing up in the south during the early 1900’s when racism and segregation was not only a law but instilled into the younger society by their elders. Segregation laws separated people of different nationalities […]