Essay On African American Freedom

The word “freedom” has been a word that has always defined the United States. The United States was founded on the principal of freedom and is known as the land of free, however not everyone has been able to enjoy the same freedoms as others throughout the years. Minorities and women have had a constant struggle of gaining the same freedoms as white males have had. It is very interesting to see how has the meaning of freedom changed for minorities and women from the reconstruction period to the sixties. Minorities and women alike had seen a dramatic change in their meanings of freedom from the reconstruction period to the sixties.
To begin, the first and the most obvious change in the meaning of freedom for minorities was the start of the reconstruction era. Post-civil war African Americans were immediately jolted from the life of cruel slavery into the lives of citizens. However just because they were not slaves anymore did not mean they received the same freedoms of a white male. African Americans had lots of trouble finding any economic prosperity post-civil war for several reasons. One of the …show more content…
With this communist threat the government began to clamp down on any African Americans activist that they thought was too radical to prevent criticism from abroad. However even with some oppression for the government to African American activists one of the biggest turning points in the African Americans fight for equal freedom occurred in the mist of the Cold War. The Brown vs. Board of Ed case is arguably one of the most famous civil rights cases. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of nine African Americans tells who tried to enroll into an Arkansas school but were prevented by the Sates governor. This case was crucial in the civil rights movement of the time and gave African Americans finally the access to the same free education that white people