African Americans

African Americans have always been a major part of the history in the United States and its criminal justice system. African Americans first started to become majorly involved in the criminal justice system in the times of the Civil Rights Movement and during the time where Martin Luther King Jr. had a major impact on the African American community while fighting for their rights. These protests and movements led to an active involvement in the criminal justice system and was just the start of their involvement. Later events that African Americans were involved in, however, were not for a positive message as Martin Luther King Jr. portrayed during that time, but these negative events and actions led to more incarcerations of the African American community. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to portray positive messages to earn them their rights, but when the thought of African Americans and the criminal justice system are discussed, only their negative events and actions are brought to attention. The African American community received a negative image from surrounding communities and ethnicities that stuck with them until present time. There has been a rise of the Black Middle Class and this shows their increase in success to help deflect the negative responses by other communities and how others portray the African American community. From the Civil Rights Movement to the modern day African American community, there have been many successes within their community that shows that the overall negative image of African Americans is slowly deteriorating. To deeply show the rate of success among the African American community, it will be thoroughly explained how their success has developed overtime, and how they are slowly deviating fr...

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... as this paper will explain, the African American has come a long way since the Civil Rights Movement and are continuing to prosper from their own actions, both past and present day. Studies have been completed that show the relationship between the White and Black communities and how each races income have grown through the years. This message helps to defer the African American community away from the idea that most African American families are considered to be poor. The African American community is on a rise when it comes to their social status, and they are slowly drifting away from the idea that they are one of the poorest races within the United States. This will explain their successes from the Civil Rights Movement and how they are becoming more successful to help destroy the idea of the African American community part of the “lower social class” category.