African American history of Alabama

African Americans and their influential leaders fought in many ways against racism, segregation, and discrimination following the Civil War until present time. African Americans’ struggle to achieve racial equality and full citizenship in the United States forced them to find ways to enhance their quality of life and establish strong political foundations capable of achieving meaningful social, cultural and economic changes. Their fight for equality led them to create durable movements that…

Prior to WWI, no African American had ever been apart of the U.S. Air Corps. They were not allowed to join because of segregation laws and also many Americans believed that blacks were inferior to most white men. During WWII, many African American pilots overcame racism at home and overseas to become the best fighter pilots in American History. In 1940 U.S. President Franklin. D Roosevelt ordered the armed forces to create an all negro flying unit. Many people believe he created the negro…

Civil Right for African Americans in the progressive reform to end racial segregation and discrimination. Through war of legislation- black and white activist work to overcome unjust treatment of African Americans. This paper is about the struggle for equality and successes and pitfalls of the Civil Rights Movement of the twentieth century. The whites view on freedom was something the African Americans could not tolerate. In the text book “African Americans a Concise History ( Hine, D.,…

peaceful lawful rally in Selma Alabama, on March 7th, 1965, turned into an assault by police. There were about 525 civil right demonstrators. The demonstrators were marching through the City of Selma using the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The demonstrators were out peacefully demonstrating and promoting voter registration for African-Americans and also for the killing of an African-American by the name of Jimmy Lee Jackson. Lee who was killed by a police officer in Alabama on February 18 1965, during…

incarceration of African-American males is at an all time high, and the prison-industrial complex is rife with racism and injustice. There are 5 times as many Whites using drugs than African-Americans, but African-Americans are being convicted of drug related offenses 10 times the rate of Whites. But, the real injustice starts when former convicts are released from jail and are labeled as felons. In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander claims that felons show the same loss of liberty as…

realize the importance of education and the need for industrial skills in the African American community in the 19th century. Booker T. Washington, who believed that African American's interests were best served by becoming farmers, land owners, and most importantly educated. He felt that work as a craftsman was an honest and honorable profession. Economic Security was a large building block, in his theory on African American advancement. Born of multi racial parents, his father was a white man…

recognized as the founder of the civil rights movement, and this is granted to the infamous bus boycott led by her in Montgomery, Alabama, and her other efforts to end segregation in the United States. Historians often date the beginning of the civil rights movements in the United Sates to Parks bus boycott on December 1, 1955. On this date, a young Rosa Parks was to change history forever by refusing to give her seat up to a Caucasian passenger on the bus, and move to the back of the bus…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was born in Alabama in 1929. Also, a huge black activist leader and his father was a pastor at their church, so he grew up around hearing an advocate for African Americans. The date and location of this speech was in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963, this was one of the biggest moments in African American history also U.S. history. A lot of the equal rights movement was going on at the time, people daily every fought for their equal rights. JFK was also assassinated…

In the early 1960’s life was hard for the African-Americans living in the United States. From bars to bathrooms, everything was segregated. Black Americans struggled for racial equality for a very long time, An ongoing battle between the good and the bad. Segregation was a big issue back then. Every small thing would be a problem. Water fountains, bathrooms, clubs, and bars just to name a few. As things grew worse discrimination became more evident through many different ways such as hate…

conflict is inevitable. Conflict is important because it sheds light on the flaws in our society, and results in a change in the status quo. Although it was a tragic event in American history, what happened to Emmitt Till caused a realization in African-American communities…