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Social consequences of the civil war
Social consequences of the civil war
Social consequences of the civil war
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The end of the Civil War in 1865 and Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation may have promised the millions of slaves their freedom, but things have started to get worse during the Reconstruction era. After the Union victory of the Civil War, the United States had to restore a formerly slave population back into the country which is a very big challenge for them to succeed. Due to the assassination of President Lincoln shortly before the end of the Civil War, the newly elected Andrew Johnson took his place and became the new president. Under the administration of Johnson, he began to execute his own reconstruction program which led to the new Southern state legislatures passing the black laws, which are also known as Jim Crow Laws. The …show more content…
People tend to refer to her as the anti-lynching crusade leader because she is very vocal about violence against Afro-Americans in her articles. In Ida Wells’ famous pamphlet, The United States Atrocities, she thoroughly discussed the brutal lynchings that are happening and killing innocent people around America. She states that the government did not intervene and put an end to the lynchings that are happening in the South and that they could care less about the lives of innocent black humans in their own state. One of the alternatives that Wells suggested is that every Afro-American living in the South should have a Winchester rifle in their homes so they can fight the people who are trying to hang them. She believes that this will reduce the amount of lynchings and will result in more people respecting the Afro-Americans when they realize that they know how to fight and defend themselves. (page 38) Wells also suggested that if the white citizens refuse to put a stop to the violence against them, then they could easily stop working for them. She referred to the Afro-Americans as the “backbone of the South” (page 36) meaning that the Southern citizens rely on them for labor so they can choose to stop working for them if the government doesn’t put an end to the brutal murders of Afro-Americans and refuses to start treating them like the fellow human beings they …show more content…
In his article, The American Negro and His Fatherland, he only wrote about one main alternative for African Americans that are living in the South. He truly believed that there is no purpose for a black person to live in the United States, and that they do not belong there. Turner believes that all Afro-Americans should leave America and build a new civilization in Africa. Many blacks during that time wanted to stay in America, so it was not a very strong alternative. In his speech, Turner also brought religion into the speech several times, and said the following: “I believe that the Negro was brought to this country in the providence of God to a heaven-permitted if not a divine-sanctioned manual laboring school, that he might have direct contact with the mightiest race that ever trod the face of the globe.” He is basically saying that he believes that the African Americans were brought into the United States because of God and so they could become Catholics. For the rest of the essay, he wrote about how they will never be seen as equals in the United States and that there is no future for them if they continue to live in
Upon reflecting on today's quarter projects an image came into my mind. It was a circle with a bunch of different arrows moving out from a common center trying to push out of the circle that contained them (see below). I found this to be an apt description of the individuals we discussed in class today. All of them worked to apply pressure to society in different ways. One common link I saw between Emma Goldman, Eugene V. Debs and Ida B. Wells was applying political pressure. Although they worked towards different goals I could see a common thread between the methods they used to apply pressure which often involved writing and trying to communicate their ideas to the masses. I found these ideas to be a rather efficient way to spread these beliefs
Ida B. Wells was born into slavery, and lived in Holly Springs Mississippi. She was later freed, and learned from her parents what it meant to be a political activist. By 1891, Wells was the owner of the newspaper, Free Speech, and was reporting on the horrors that were occurring in the south. Wells, along with other people of the African American activist community were particularly horrified about the lynching’s that were occurring in the south. As a response to the lynching that was occurring, and other violent acts that the African American community was dealing with Wells wrote three pamphlets: Southern Horrors, The Red Record, and Mob Brutality. Muckraking and investigative journalism can be seen throughout these pamphlets, as well as Wells intent to persuade the African American community, and certain members of the white community to take a stand against the crime of lynching. Wells’ writings are an effective historical text, because she serves as a voice to an underrepresented African American community.
...servation. His most important points were as follows: education taught the Negro to feel inferior, it has not prepared Negroes to make an adequate living in his community and mis-educated the Negroes are hindering racial development rather than aiding it.
“Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation.”, a famous quote by “The Confession of Nat Turner “What is the Confession of Nat Turner? Well it all start with knowing who is Nat Turner?
Ida B. Wells was a young African American woman when her activism began. She was a journalist, leader of an anti-lynching crusade and one of the founders of the National Association of Colored Peoples (NAACP). In her early life, she was on board a train and the train conductor ordered Wells to get up from the first class car and move to the smoking car that was crowed. She refused and three men, including the conductor dragged her off the train. She hired a black attorney to help her sue the railroad company, but he was paid off, causing her to hire a white attorney. She won her case and was rewarded five
Ida Bell Wells, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was born in Holly Springs Mississippi on the 16th of July in 1862. Ida was raised by her mother Lizzie Wells and her father James Wells. She was born into slavery as the oldest of eight children in the family. Both Ida’s parents were enslaved during the Civil War but after the war they became active in the Republican Party during the Reconstruction era. Ida’s father, James, was also involved in the Freedman’s Aid Society (www.biography.com). He also helped to start Shaw University. Shaw University was a university for the newly freed slaves to attend, it was also where Ida received the majority of her schooling. However, Ida received little schooling because she was forced to take care of her other siblings after her parents and one of her siblings passed away due to Yellow Fever. Ida became a teacher at the age of 16 as a way to make money for her and her siblings. Eventually Ida and all her sisters moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to live with their aunt, leaving all their brothers behind to continue working. In Memphis Ida began to stand up for the rights of African Americans and women.
“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...
The Civil War began with it the secession of seven southern slave states that soon grew to eleven confederate states. In 1865 the war ended with the surrendering of the confederate armies and the dissolution of the confederacy from the government. The time following the Civil War, was the Era of reconstruction when the Ku Klux Klan arose. The Civil War gave African Americans increasing equality which angered confederate followers. On January 1st, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that decreed that all slaves in the eleven confederate rebel states were free(14). In the Spring of 1865, Andrew Johnson took office after Abraham lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. During the time of reconstruction three major amendments were passed that furthermore pushed the nation towards equality. In 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment was passed by Lincoln, freeing all slaves and abolishing slavery. In 1868, under Johnson's presidency, full citizenship was given to any native-born American, including former slaves with the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Finally in 1870, with the passing of the Fifteenth Amendment, no citizen could be denied the right to vote because of their skin color or race. Along with the passing of these amendments Andrew Johnson made dramatic changes to Lincoln's original plan of
Reconstruction was intended to give African-Americans the chance for a new and better life. Many of them stayed with their old masters after being freed, while others left in search of opportunity through education as well as land ownership. However this was not exactly an easy task. There were many things standing in their way, chiefly white supremacists and the laws and restrictions they placed upon African-Americans. Beginning with the 'black codes' established by President Johnson's reconstruction plan, blacks were required to have a curfew as well as carry identification. Labor contracts established under Johnson's Reconstruction even bound the 'freedmen' to their respective plantations. A few years later, another set of laws known as the 'Jim Crow' laws directly undermined the status of blacks by placing unfair restrictions on everything from voting rights all the way to the segregation of water fountains. Besides these restrictions, the blacks had to deal with the Democratic Party whose northern wing even denounced racial equality. As a result of democratic hostility and the Republican Party's support of Black suffrage, freedmen greatly supported the Republican Party.
In an era where women are finally speaking out about the injustices that they face in society, Ida B. Wells paved the path for other women’s rights activists in the battle against sexism and racism. As a public speaker, journalist, and teacher, Wells was able to share her ideas and impact thousands. Ida B. Wells-Barnett (better known as Ida B. Wells) was a women’s rights activist, civil rights activist, and an anti-lynching crusader. Despite having to face many obstacles, she had always had strong opinions that she believed the world should hear.
When Andrew Johnson became president, the United States was dealt a new set of problems. President Johnson was opposed to the idea of African Americans as equal counterparts of white men and believed that African Americans were built for manual labor. He did not intervene when southern states began to rebel and then espoused set of laws called the Black Codes. These laws were used to restrict the lives of freedmen across the southern states, and in turn, was another form of slavery without being branded as such. Under these laws, if an African American man was not employed, he was jailed and then auctioned off. The South was pleased with the Black Codes, but the North was not. The North did not support the South’s Black Codes and thought these
What does The First Lady of Alabama have to do with women’s right? The late 60’s and 70’s belonged to the woman as a new feminist movement was on the horizon. Although this was a time when oral contraceptives were being introduced and more and more women were joining the work force, women were still not being treated fairly. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 which made it okay to pay a woman less money for the same work done by a man. This act is still in play today. Such laws caused women to rally together and fight for their civil rights. There were two different views by women for women. The first group focused on “equal treatment of women in the public sphere” while women liberation groups focused on women being equal on a more personal level. However, the lines of these two views were blurred because it was more important for women to succeed as a whole and not just in a public forum or on a personal level.
As I read through the excerpt Richard Pratt states that we as Americans “have not yet learned our lesson.” After many years of oppressing the black man, mistreating them, beating them, seeing the black race as something less of a human being, was highly hypocritical coming from Americans whom wrote in the doctrine of our Declaration that “ all men are created free and equal” and of the clause in our Constitution that forbade “any abridgment on the right of citizens on account of race, color, or previous condition.” African Americans were not offered schooling programs; they were separated from their family, sold to work as a slave for the
After the Civil War, Andrew Johnson became Lincoln’s successor as a President. Even though he had always been a supporter of the Union, and Lincoln’s right hand in many ways, he was also extremely racist. So, the emancipation that Abraham Lincoln had fought for, wasn’t that important to Johnson when he took presidency, mainly because he never believed the black people could have any role in the Reconstruction. As a matter of fact, when President Johnson started to issue the proclamations that set the beginning of the Presidential Reconstruction, he restored some political and property rights for whites, but completely excluded African-Americans. Additionally, even though he made it a requirement for southern governments to abolish slavery,