Equality for Americans: How African Americans Achieved Equality

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African Americans throughout the road to gain racial equality exercised many methods in order to attain such liberties. We start our exploration by viewing the most paramount methods to acquire racial equality; these methods included lobbying public officials through the court system and through peaceful public protests. We'll lastly address the violent methods used to gain racial equality but see how they were mostly unavailing.

There were diffused ideals among African American leaders on how to handle racial inequalities in society during the progressive era, but its leaders would form the pathways on which future generations would commence on in gaining racial equality. Following is a part of an essay written by African American leader and equal rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois, included in the textbook Exploring American Histories document 19.4, challenging the lenient approach to solve racial inequalities by African American leader Booker T. Washington, “It has been claimed that the Negro can survive only through submission. Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up... First, political power, Second, insistence on civil rights, Third, higher education of Negro youth--and concentrate all their energies on industrial education, the accumulation of wealth... but it is utterly impossible, under modern competitive methods, for working men and property-owners to defend their rights and exist without suffrage... He insists on thrift and self-respect, but at the same time counsels a silent submission to civic inferiority...” (Hewitt, 601). Unfortunately, Booker T. Washington had been born a slave unlike W. E. B. Du Bois which I think encouraged Mr. Washington to be more dismissive of rights, though Mr. Washington ...

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...tunity to all of America's constituents; this helped minimize poverty for many demographics.

The American government has implemented many programs to restrain inequality for many facets of society, but programs commenced to elect equal property rights to its citizens, both on physical and human capital, have the most considerable transformation on equality for its people. To initiate, The New Deal program the Farm Security Administration would help lay the steeping stones towards equality for African Americans in the south by granting plots of land they could farm and own. Above and below, affirmative action would present opportunities for the American dream to many American demographics by giving them chances to acquire knowledge, human capital, and jobs to acquire money and thus physical capital. Affirmative action helped to wither poverty for many demographics.

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