“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King Jr. from the “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28th, 1963. This quote is one of his most famous, because a significant amount of people could relate to it and even after more than fifty years people still do.
The United States was founded upon discrimination and injustices, It first started with the Natives and then the Africans. In 1692, the first slaves arrived from Africa to Virginia. Eli whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, then increased the demand of slavery. After a couple of years, slave owners were making a profit, out of people that were taken from …show more content…
Some now even say, that slavery was a “necessary evil” and that the past is the past, but that is simply not the truth.
Slavery was evil, period. It was not necessary, it was an easy and lazy way for Caucasians to reach success. In the south an average family owned one to nine slaves and families with big plantations owned more than a hundred slaves. In 1804 Slavery was abolished in the north and in 1808 the congress eliminated the importation of slaves from Africa.In Dec. 6, 1865 after more than two hundred years of suffering, slaves were finally “free”. Southern states were not satisfied by that decision, causing them to pass the Black Codes, drastically depriving the newly freed slaves from their rights. For example; public facilities had “only colored” and “only whites” signs, every black person had to be in the service of a white person, and no black or black decedent person could marry a white person and if they did it would have been considered as be a …show more content…
The K.K.K used to kill African Americans for no apparent reason. They would go out to the streets with masks and covered in white to not be recognised and hang black people from trees and then burn them in front of their families to. Even if there were witnesses to the murders they couldn't do a thing about it, since black people could not testify in court and Caucasians would mostly side with the racism. For example the case of Emmett till, a 14 year old boy that was brutally murdered by a group of white men in mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. He was beaten to death and thrown into a river so his body would become
The United States was founded upon discrimination and injustices, It first started with the Natives and then the Africans. In 1692, the first slaves arrived from Africa to Virginia. Eli whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, then increased the demand of slavery. After a couple of years, slave owners were making a profit, out of people that were taken from …show more content…
Some now even say, that slavery was a “necessary evil” and that the past is the past, but that is simply not the truth.
Slavery was evil, period. It was not necessary, it was an easy and lazy way for Caucasians to reach success. In the south an average family owned one to nine slaves and families with big plantations owned more than a hundred slaves. In 1804 Slavery was abolished in the north and in 1808 the congress eliminated the importation of slaves from Africa.In Dec. 6, 1865 after more than two hundred years of suffering, slaves were finally “free”. Southern states were not satisfied by that decision, causing them to pass the Black Codes, drastically depriving the newly freed slaves from their rights. For example; public facilities had “only colored” and “only whites” signs, every black person had to be in the service of a white person, and no black or black decedent person could marry a white person and if they did it would have been considered as be a …show more content…
The K.K.K used to kill African Americans for no apparent reason. They would go out to the streets with masks and covered in white to not be recognised and hang black people from trees and then burn them in front of their families to. Even if there were witnesses to the murders they couldn't do a thing about it, since black people could not testify in court and Caucasians would mostly side with the racism. For example the case of Emmett till, a 14 year old boy that was brutally murdered by a group of white men in mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. He was beaten to death and thrown into a river so his body would become