The country that I now deeply love, and even get a little teary eyed when I sing the National Anthem, did not used to be so welcoming to me and people like me. Before my time there were laws against African-Americans living a normal life. A normal life many before me fought for. Life in the 1950’s was not the easiest for African-Americans. Many Whites still saw African-Americans as an inferior race. This meant many simple everyday task were that much harder for Africans-Americans. Housing Segregation, discrimination in courts, discrimination in public places prevented many African Americans from living the American Dream. All of these examples are only the tip of the ice berg. Going out to eat, shopping, even just going for a Sunday afternoon stroll in the park was nearly impossible. Living was hard for African-Americans as well as trying to work. Many men tried to get work but could not because even though slavery was gone segregation as well as discrimination was thriving. Many African-American men may have been well qualified for a job but would be over looked merely for the fact the color of their skin was two shades too dark. In spite of the double standard in society African-Americans were allowed to fight in American wars. While African-American men were struggling to get simple jobs even hard labor jobs nobody wanted Uncle Sam had no problem sending them to the front lines to fight for their country. African- Americans were allowed to fight in the Army and lay their lives on the line for a country that could not even stand to have little white children and little black children sit in the same class room. While African-Americans were allowed to fight in the Army they were not allowed to be in a same platoon as White men. T... ... middle of paper ... ...rican ways for my right to be an American. Works Cited Cumings, Bruce. “The Korean War”. New York: Random House, 2010. Print Wells, Ronald. “The Wars of America Christian Views”. Grand Rapids: Willimas B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1981. Print Heale, M.J. “American Anticommunism”. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Print Heller, Francis. “The Korean War A 25-Year Perspective”. Kansas: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1977. Print Rose, Arnold. “The Negro in America”. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 1964. Print Van Deusen, John. “The Black Man in White America”. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, INC., 1938. Print Ploski, Harry A. Ph.D. & Brown, Roscoe C. Jr. Ph.D., “The Negro Almanac”. New York: Bellwether Publishing Company, Inc. 1967. Print Pete Curvey 1948-Present “Negro Patriotism Feels Rebuffed,” P.M., Oct. 5, 1940
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“The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, – this longing to attain self-consciousness, manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message f...
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In 1933 life in America was a daunting time for the African-American community, they had dealt with severe injustice coming from the hands of the oppressive U.S government, and lived in a nation that had treated them as second-class citizens. A man by the name of Dr. Carter G. Woodson recognized what was going on and documented what he detailed as the problems of the community and the cause and background to what was hindering the negros success in society in his book the Mis-Education of the Negro. The Mis-Education of Negro is a breathtaking tale detailing the plight of the African-American community, Dr. Woodson purveys his philosophy on everything that he felt was wrong with the Eurocentric education system and how it had failed the
The above-mentioned essays are: Nihilism in Black America, The Pitfalls of Racial Reasoning, The Crisis of Black Leadership, Demystifying the Black Conservatism, Beyond Affirmative Action: Equality and Identity, On Black-Jewish Relations, Black Sexuality: T...
It wasn’t easy being an African American, back then they had to fight in order to achieve where they are today, from slavery and discrimination, there was a very slim chance of hope for freedom or even citizenship. This longing for hope began to shift around the 1950’s. During the Civil Rights Movement, where discrimination still took place, it was the time when African Americans started to defend their rights and honor to become freemen like every other citizen of the United States. African Americans were beginning to gain recognition after the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, which declared all people born natural in the United States and included the slaves that were previously declared free. However, this didn’t prevent the people from disputing against the constitutional law, especially the people in the South who continued to retaliate against African Americans and the idea of integration in white schools....