African Americans After Civil War Education

For blacks, the history of higher education typically points to segregated education. Before the Civil War, the social system promoted the belief that blacks wouldn’t get return on their time spent in higher education. Brown and Ricard (2007) noted that most North institutions were reluctant to allow black enrollment in colleges and universities, and in the South, where slaveholder’s were still powerhouse businessmen, slaves would never be allowed to become more educated than their owners. The reluctance of the White leaders to allow blacks to formally be accepted into higher education programs held blacks back from achieving what many aspired to, and were fully capable of, experience.

African Americans suffered from racism during Jim Crow system for many years. “Racism is the belief that the physical characteristics of a person or group determines their capabilities and that one group is naturally superior to other groups”(United Nations Human Rights). On other words, racism means anyone has different physical characteristics such as color skin or gender is lower than the majority or another group. Slavery in the United States began after English colonists settled and continue for many years (Kenion, 1912). During slavery years, The Americans transferred African men and women to the US to work in farms, housekeeping and serve white people. After many years, the African Americans demanded for their freedom and equality with white people. As a result, the white Americans created Jim Crow system. The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws and used from 1876 to 1965 in the United States. The laws used to organize life between African Americans and white people. The system was dealing with African Americans as second level citizenries and withe people as first citizenries. African American could not get the simple rights such as qualified education and health care. For example, North Carolina schools were racially segregated because Jim Crow system say’s that, African American and white students should study in separate and equal schools. In fact, schools in North Carolina were separate, but not equal. By 1875, “public education in North Carolina was a legally ordained system” (Kenion, 1912). Every thing was separate such as facilities, teachers, resources, and students. In North Carolina, African American and white students had been attended segregated public schools. However, the schools were unequal. The whi...

Do you ever wonder why black students can’t maintain? Well education is very important in all our lives, today everyone must have some sort of education to support themselves or their families. Most people get an education to escape poverty. Most students are getting help from their parents, because of education they have and one good paying job and that gives them a lot of time to spend with their kids. . However poor student’s parents can 't help them because of lack of education they have to work two to three jobs to support their kids. The problem is African American youth are falling behind in America’s educational system.

Blacks in the south were not free. Southern blacks were forced to work all day for no pay. As soon as the sunrise the slaves had to work until sunset. Blacks in the south had no choice to take a day off or not.

This time in the post World War II era, many African Americans had began to become a more urbanized center of population, around 1970. (Inmotionaame, pg. 1) The regular population included about 70 percent of just the natural population to live in more urbanized cities. (Inmotionaame, pg. 1) Soon African Americans dominated, having 80 percent of their community to live and take the same benefits in more urbanized centers of the Unites States. (Inmotionaame, pg. 2) Only about 53 percent of African Americans and others who seemed to migrate stayed in the same area around the South. (Inmotionaame, pg. 2)

In a famous passage, “The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.” ( Frank Serpico BrainyQuotes) With the current events in the 30's era affecting the adults and children everyone

WHITE SOCIALIZATION The objective of white Southern parent’s instruction of their children was to have the new Jim Crow South replicate the same social order as slavery. This meant emphasizing the power of white skin and the importance of keeping whiteness separate from blackness (DuRocher, 14). White parents instilled a fear of ‘the slave becoming the master,’ as the power of whites came directly from African American’s lack of power. Thus, it was important for white parents to regulate social spaces as their children got older in order to avoid interactions between them and African Americans.

African Americans During WW2 The significant contributions of African Americans throughout WWII launched the 20th century Civil Rights movement. Over 2.5 African-American men went in for the draft, and some were women who volunteered. They got much discrimination when serving in the Army Air forces, Navy, Army, Marine Corps, and Coast guard. There were over 167,000 men and women who who served in the navy, 909,000 served in the Army, 17,000 served in the Marine Corps, and 5000 in the coast guard.

World war II was one of the tedious wars in the history. Countless lives of innocent people were affected by this war. It impact on millions of life and as well as many countries. This war was split into two sides which were Allies and Axis. The Allies side include the United kingdom and the United States and Axis side were Germany, Italy, and Japan. According to the research, over 61 million lives from the allies side were accounted as casualties and over 11 million people from the Axis side were dead. World war II was considered the bloodiest battle in the history of the world. During the war, contribution of African American helped Allies power to win the war even though they were treated poorly with discrimination. African American

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States led to changes in the perception of African-Americans from a political and legislative view, however, these changes were not as consistently demonstrated by the social attitudes of white Americans. The campaign succeeded in winning racial equality according to legal rights, but it was not as effective in creating social change; it influenced a somewhat less racist society.