African American history of Alabama

the civil rights movement was a horde movement to secure equal access to opportunities for the essential authorization of rights for African Americans and other minority groups. Despite, the fact that the journey of this evolution initiated in the 1900’s, its progression did not began to sky rocketed until the 1950’s and 1960’s. United with whites, African Americans, organized and carried out nonviolent demonstrations. In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited racial segregation in public…

The slavery of African people in the United States of America started in 1619. According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr, only 338000 out of 12.5 million Africans were shipped to North America.1 African slaves always did the hardest jobs such as aid in production of sugar or tobacco crops. White people purchased African people and worked them to death. Most of the African people were treated such as animals in 16th century. African Americans have been fighting for an equality for many centuries. There…

Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire was the basis of this this week’s discussion. The monograph thoroughly explains an area in the Civil Rights Movement that has previously been swept under the rug. Historical Actors and events that have previously been glossed over were revealed through this important text. Things like rape and abuse of African American women is the synthesis of this…

highly challenged and banned novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The novel is about the life of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, a young girl who lives during the 1930s in the small fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. Her father, Atticus is a lawyer, who takes on a case where an African American man, Tom Robinson is taken to trial for claiming to have a raped a white woman. The trial results in asserting how powerful and cruel racism is with a guilty verdict and later death of a man that was…

across the country, especially in the south. During the civil rights movement mainly African Americans struggled in their fight for equality. Major events such as the Selma march, the March on Washington, and the Sit-in Movements all lead to the formation of equal rights for there very citizens. The Selma to Montgomery marches in 1935 were part of the voting rights movement taking place in the now historic Selma, Alabama. The movement’s goal was to highlight yet another racial injustice in the…

then there would be no civil rights for African Americans, sacred Native American grounds would be violated, and more. At age 42, civil rights activist Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She decided to sit in the section that was labeled “whites only,” and when she was told she needed to move to the back of the bus she refused. Parks was then arrested for civil disobedience, but her act brought attention to the fact that African Americans were not treated the same as whites.…

from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. Both letters on the racial tensions and problems during the 1960s. Racial problems in Alabama were at their peak of tensions and these two letters were written with different issues and claims of how to correct the problems between the black and white communities. The clergymen did not believe what the African Americans were doing with their protests. So the clergymen urged a withdraw from Martin Luther King Jr., and state that he is an extremist…

When a group of nine unemployed African American men were traveling on the same train in search of jobs, they did not know that their lives would be changed forever. These young men, widely known as the “Scottsboro Boys”, left the train falsely accused of raping two white women. This tragic case became a significant symbol in American history, and an accurate representation of American injustice during the time period of the Great Depression. Although there was very weak evidence that supported…

peaceful acts to gain equality for African Americans. He led the bus boycott in 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus. King was also known for his powerful acts in having taught nonviolent methods. In 1964, he earned the Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King Jr. was also very widely known for his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 to a middle class African American family. He was born to Martin…

way. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on in Atlanta on January 15,1929, he was raised in a really religious home and family, he followed his father's footsteps, by Dr.King being able to become a minister pastor in a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. As martin Luther king grew he had experiences with discrimination by having white and colored people…