Essay On Discrimination Against African Americans

Dr. Seuss once said, “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind do not matter and those who matter do not mind.” Dr. Seuss meant that one should be his or herself regardless of others’ opinions. The Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender community (LGBT) is treated similarly to the African American community during the mid 1800s. They are both treated and viewed differently than everyone else. Luckily, there are laws to prevent the discrimination. However, discrimination in the United States has never gone away and will always be problematic. African Americans were treated horribly since the discovery of America. Many African Americans were forced to move away from their homes in Africa to work in the New World. The allowance of suppression of African Americans in southern states continued until 1865. African Americans were forced to work for whites without pay. Also, if the enslaved Africans didn’t perform to his/her

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn manifested the treatment of African Americans as slaves. The book displayed how slaves weren’t treated like actual people. Many slave owners didn’t think about the feelings of them. The main character, Huckleberry, gets to know a runaway slave and finds out that he was just like a normal human being; though this was in a book, slaves were actually treated this way before the 13th Amendment. Even though the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, African Americans were still treated unfairly and civil rights became an issue. The Civil Rights movement began around 1954 and was not fully taken care of until the late 1960s. During this time, blacks were segregated by society. African Americans were segregated by Jim Crow Laws in: housing, jobs, schools, public transportation, public spaces, prisons, military, and more. As a result, African Americans were treated poorly since the discovery of