American Equality American equality isn’t quite completely equal. According to most people, equality makes everything and everyone equal. When you’re talking about American equality you take out the equal part because America isn’t always equal. Especially in literature, America has always taken the equal rights away from certain groups of people. U.S. Americans has always had strange ways of going about certain things. In America, we are supposed to be “free” and “equal”. How are we equal when women don’t get treated like men? They don’t get paid as much, they also get treated differently because men are “superior.” How are men any better than women? They are humans like us men. In some ways women can be better. America is equal
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The Jim Crow Laws were made within that time making black slaves equal to ¼ of a white person for the census. Other than that they weren’t regarded as people for anything. To most people they were just lousy farm equipment. That’s definitely not American equality. After the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln made his big speech called the Emancipation Proclamation slavery died off. But blacks and whites still weren’t the “same”. Everything was segregated between them. A black man could not go into a restaurant for white people without getting the cops called and arrested or beaten. Literally everywhere you went there was two of everything. There were two restrooms, water fountains, diners, shops, and the buses and schools were even segregated. A black man couldn’t even join the army up until the US went to war in 1914. When the 1960s hit everything started to change. The blacks started to rebel against the government and wanted to be treated the same as whites. The Civil Rights Movement was one of the biggest and greatest things to ever happen in the US in my opinion. After that movement blacks and whites finally could be treated the same unless you were black and ran into the KKK. Then you were screwed and was probably killed or beaten to death on
The Jim Crow Laws were made within that time making black slaves equal to ¼ of a white person for the census. Other than that they weren’t regarded as people for anything. To most people they were just lousy farm equipment. That’s definitely not American equality. After the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln made his big speech called the Emancipation Proclamation slavery died off. But blacks and whites still weren’t the “same”. Everything was segregated between them. A black man could not go into a restaurant for white people without getting the cops called and arrested or beaten. Literally everywhere you went there was two of everything. There were two restrooms, water fountains, diners, shops, and the buses and schools were even segregated. A black man couldn’t even join the army up until the US went to war in 1914. When the 1960s hit everything started to change. The blacks started to rebel against the government and wanted to be treated the same as whites. The Civil Rights Movement was one of the biggest and greatest things to ever happen in the US in my opinion. After that movement blacks and whites finally could be treated the same unless you were black and ran into the KKK. Then you were screwed and was probably killed or beaten to death on