African Americans 20th Century

starting to come in the picture, but by the start of the 20th century their hopes basically vanished. Black people were denied the vote and remained in poverty. Black people were victims of violence and murder. All over America, resistance to racism was met with deadly force. At the same time as Europe’s nation built empires across the globe, Africans and Asians were being stripped of their land and beating to death. In the west, popular culture reinforce the idea of a racial hierarchy and being better than the next race and white supremacy by ridiculing black people. Throughout the twentieth century from the Mississippi cotton field and South African diamond mines, a tale of racial exploitation and violence unfolds. Many people would lose their lives resisting and fighting battles till this day. …show more content…
In order to stop black men from voting they created literacy test or other exams that you had to past in order to vote. For example, they would ask “what country are we in”. They was also ask them if they could read. They made it difficult for us so that we wouldn’t be a factor when it comes to voting.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the seven state made it legal to offer so-called “separate but equal” to their black citizens. These laws denied black Americans equal access to public communities such as education which turned the United States into a racial and segregated nation. Soon, millions living in the United States found themselves trapped by the Jim Crow Law system named the Affordable Act that ridiculed black