Effects Of Racial Discrimination On African Americans

African Americans throughout history have unfavorably been subjected to racial inequality, unfair job and income distribution, and physical violence from those who favored segregation. Essentially, from 1945 until 2000, blacks across America united and slowly began the fight to end racial discrimination. The American lifestyle and equality opportunities for the black community in American have made slow, but rather significant improvements from 1945 through 2000. While many factors contributed to the improvements for African Americans, three of the most essential included the Brown V. Board of education case, Dr. King and the nonviolence protest movement, then lastly The Voting Rights Act of 1965, The Civil Rights act of 1957 and 1964. The

These included The Voting rights act of 1965, The Civil rights act of 1957, and the political act with the largest impact, the civil rights act of 1964. Ideally, each act slowly began breaking down the limitations that were imposed on African Americans. Specifically in the south, the voting rights act “proved to be one of the most effective laws in American history. Blacks did register, and they did vote.” (Brands, p. 130) While voting was eventually considered a victory in the civil rights movement, achieving this basic human fundamental right came at the cost of protesting, “blood Sunday,” and serious casualties as white opposers of the south were heavily against African Americans voting. With the passing of both Civil Right Acts from 1954 and 1967, many politicians in Washington, along with the majority of American citizens came to the realization that racial discrimination and segregation were essentially unconstitutional in all

This time span was a developmental period in which an entire community unified together to end segregation, racial discrimination, unfair job opportunities and income. With the end of the Jim crow era in the south, a new door opened for the African americans community to ideally contribute equally to the American society. Furthermore, while many white extremists in the south were for segregation, their unwillingness to accept an individual based solely on the premisses of the skin colored ultimately affected them by limiting their own income. Lastly, while not an easy topic of discussion, but yet clearly evident based on historical facts, African Americans have always been racially discriminated against, but as time has passed life became easier