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I believe that African-Americans reached legal citizenship, but not fully, because of the way they were treated by white people. Black codes were laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans. These terrible codes were constructed for three purposes. To limit their rights by only allowing them to marry, own property, sue in court, earn wages, and work for low skill level jobs. Southerner plantation owners wanted to get…

idea of “Mis-Education” of the black race. Supported by prominent leaders at the time such as W. E. B. Dubois, Woodson argues on the “education system’s failure to present present authentic Negro History in schools and the bitter knowledge that there was a scarcity of literature available for such a purpose”(Woodson 1). This idea was still an issue up until the 1960’s, with the beginning of riots and protests on college campuses across the United States. The book The Black Revolution on Campus…

War, many southerners had a hard time adjusting to the new laws that were being forced upon them. So, during 1865-1866 the Southern “Black Codes” were made. These newly passed southern laws limited the freedom of the former slaves. Each law mirrored colonial times, the laws had severe restrictions that were only there for former slaves and emancipated blacks. The “Black Codes” excluded colored children from attending public schools in the south, they also made it so neither group could vote,…

Back in middle school I didn’t know what “Being Black” meant. I didn’t know someone could be an ethnicity. I didn’t know there was a such thing as standing up for who you were and what your ethnicity was. I guess in a way I didn’t really know who I was. It’s funny in middle and high school when you don’t know who you are or where you come from or what you do. It’s interesting that I had to learn that #blacklivesmatter from the television screen. I always loved my blackness, and loved who I was.…

The black American actors have come along away within the movie industry in a myriad of perspectives. This is exemplified by the present huge number of black actors in Hollywood, the contemporary influential roles they play and even more essential; the modern view they present in relation to the stereotypical roles of the past century. A far cry from what it used to be in the early and mid 20th century with all film roles assigned to this group having attached racial prejudice. During the…

The myth of black criminality began in Antebellum America when vagrancy laws began and different punishments due to race were enforced. The text says “Antebellum Virginia had 73 crimes that could garner the death penalty for slaves- and only one for whites.” Many people judge the severity of the crime by punishment that is handed down. This would make most white Americans in the Antebellum time period view African Americans as more dangerous. The myth of black criminality has not only been…

the TV to see a headline something like this, “Black man shot and killed by police”. This theme reoccurs in today’s society, so much that some people are even becoming numb to it. Black males need to work on our relationship with police so these types of things don’t keep happening. From what I know personally the black communities relationship with police have been bad for as long as me, my parents, and my grandparents can remember, the black male relationship with police have been…

The topic black lives matter really creates an immense emotional roller coaster for me, because I really ‘go hard’ for my people, and I become very active when it comes to defending them. Attending chapel yesterday was well worth it, although majority of the topics that were discussed caused me to be highly disappointed in my people, that we lack so much knowledge about ourselves. To hear how white washed the panelists, and the audience sounded created exasperation, that words can’t even…

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying. Because no light can get out, people can't see black holes. They are invisible. Space telescopes with special tools can help find black holes. The special tools can see how stars that are very close to black holes act differently than other stars. Black holes can be big or small. Scientists…

Case Study: Black Populism (Late 19th Century) The rise of black populism in the late 19th century is a prime contributor of democracy that was questioned and rebuilt in a better fashion. Until black populism came about, the kind of democracy that flourished in United States was Southern democracy, which drew most of its support from white people who were plantation owners and/or former slave owners, the “elites” of then-America, who were also, quite frequently, white supremacists. Black…