African Americans Gain The Right Of Equality

The early 1600s started the tyrannical nightmare for African people, who were not seen as humans, but as a capitalization and possession. For years the greed of white men over ruled any kind of emotion or remorse against the exploitation of slaves. Regardless to the fact of such suffering there were many African Americans who made history by standing and rising for change. Similar to the poem, Still I Rise by Maya Angelou who describes how despite the oppression against her and African Americans throughout history, she firmly stands as an activist against racism, and even though her metaphors describe her with determination, soulful emotion is also perceived because of the unjust treatment.

John A. Kirk, History Toady volume 52 issue 2, The Long Road to Equality for African-Americans

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.

When I think of the African American culture, I think of warmth and vitality: I think of soul, but I also think of strength and endurance. It has been these qualities given by the most high God to the human mind, body and spirit that to me have presumably characterized a great deal of the African American race in being brought and established here within the United States of America. Therefore, as also to be seen with the inception of Black history month, it was the African American minds who were veritably endowed with the qualities thereof that first sought to intellectually expand the awareness on and come to relish in the study of a people's history which had gone for a long time scarcely documented -- if not documented at all -- and also at the time of when this practice originated, devoid of a due respectable place within the history books of America.

Civil rights are the freedoms and rights that a person may have as a member of a community, state, or nation. Civil rights include freedom of speech, of the press, and of religion. Among others are the right to own property, and to receive fair and equal treatment from government, other persons, and private groups. In democratic countries, civil rights are protected by law and custom.

Many African Americans lifestyles are connected to the historical contents of slavery. Though this occurred over 300 years ago it still exhibits a great impact on the generations of the African today. The African American community is mentally scared by the past and this has impacted the work ethics, leadership, and personal identification of African Americans. With so many impact the only solution to this traumatic problem is to renew the motivation of this community of people through the retracing of their history and developing a new perspective and understanding of the past. This will allow “slavery... (to be )..A starting point…and not an ending point.”

Over the course of the past four months I have been introduced to some core areas of African American Studies. I will be focusing on the history, sociology, politics, and religion of my topic. The most broad but well used and understood topic in the world is media. The world is based on the aspects of what we watch, see, read, and hear. Other than attending school, the media is the one of the other things that help us understand life. Everyone perceives different things that they see and hear. One of the most continuous perceptions that has maintained over the years is the perception of African Americans. Talking about the four core areas of this will help to understand the struggle of African Americans throughout the years.

The history of America is one that can’t be discussed without talking about the Negro. Whether we want to admit it or not, the Negro has played an integral part in making what America what it is today. If it wasn’t for the profits generated from slavery, there would have been no way that America would have been the country that it is today. The slavery that the Negro endured has produced some positive and negatives, but it is the negatives that have been something that the Negro hasn’t been able to overcome for hundreds of years. It is these same negatives that have compelled some of the greatest black minds in history to create solutions to these problems. Minds such as Crummell, W.E.B Du Bois are some of the minds that have come up with solutions to these problems that will come to produce the result of elevating the Negro from the condition that produces such problems. Many of these same problems that the Negro struggled with hundreds of years ago are some of the same problems that the Contemporary Negro continues to struggle with today. These problems centered on subjects such as: the current status of the Negro family, the element of morals, need for Negro economics, and a correct and proper understanding of Negro history. The solutions derived from these subjects will help elevate the contemporary Negro.

Tracing the efforts of descendants of Africans holds a place of discomfort for African Americans, attempting to live in a world dictated by Whites. An asymmetrical treatment of Blacks, in comparison to Whites has been seen throughout our past: living in a world surrounded by a racist society intertwined with Africana descendants having double-consciousness, coexisting with dualism through the realms of life and society.

This novel gives insight on the social issues that African Americans in the south underwent during this time period. This document is important in American history because it allows for historians to understand the two mentalities of black activist during this time period. It also conveys to historians how African American’s attempted to reach equality. Although W.E.B DuBois and Booker T Washington both has their differences in attaining equality, they both wanted African Americans to live better lives in this “new south” era, but had complete different