Jim Henson

The Jim Crow south and the white supremacist north were not places to be in the United States if you were African American. WitAngry with the outcome of the Civil War and slaves becoming citizens, southern states created black codes, which restricted rights on African Americans. Later the 14th Amendment made the use of black codes illegal, stating that African Americans needed to be treated equal to whites. This lead to segregation in the south, and creating so called separate but equal…

Is the concept of slavery truly understood and acknowledged by today’s society or is it just thought of something that happened decades ago? Within Michelle Alexander’s New Jim Crow; Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness the answer becomes clear, it is not clearly depicted among society. Alexander analyzes the uprising of slavery among African Americans and argues how although they are not physically owned by masters like decades ago, they are still treated and portrayed as inferior by…

In the United States Constitution, our founding fathers declared, that all Americans and people should be guaranteed civil rights. This entails the right to vote, protection under the law, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and so on. African Americans however did not receive any of these rights, they were deemed to be inferior. This helped the white Americans justify their dreadful treatment towards African Americans. Throughout history, it is evident that African American people suffered…

The African American Civil Rights Movement is historically considered to be between the time period of 1954- 1968. However, the struggle of African Americans to gain acceptance into white society and gain basic civil rights goes back much further. The abolition of slavery, African Americas had to deal with hostility as they tried to find their place among a white society who rejected them. In 1963, the Emancipation Proclamation granted African Americans freedom from slavery inside territories…

Born from a Baptist Minister, Martin Luther King Jr. saw the world 's imperfections and craved a change. Following his father 's footsteps, he went to college while being a pastor. As a civil rights activist during the fifties and sixties, he sparked national attention for promoting equal civil rights for African Americans in a peacefully and civil way. In a time period that had so much discrimination he was jailed, beaten, stoned, stabbed and his house in Montgomery bombed he continued to live…

The Radical Republican takeover of Reconstruction in 1867 produced a mixed bag of results for the people of the South. On one hand, rights and opportunities for African Americans reached a pinnacle, and many former slaves held bright hopes for the future. The South's economy seemed to be improving, too. On the other hand, many Southerners strongly resented the changes thrust upon them by the federal government, and some of them protested with violence. Others fought to regain political control…

The period of reincorporating Southern states into the Union is known as Reconstruction, as it followed the defeat of Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. Officially it began in 1863 and lasted until 1877. The main aim was to reunite a nation with divided convictions and improve the position of African Americans, post abolition of slavery, economically and socially. It can be argued that Reconstruction failed as the legislation passed was ambiguous and was manipulated to continue…

Black Boy is an account of a young African-American boy’s thoughts and obstacles growing up in the South, whose family lives in poverty and experience constant hunger. The main character in the story is Richard Wright, who is born in 1908. Richard opens the book with a description of himself as a four-year-old boy in Natchez Mississippi, and his family’s later move to Memphis. It describes his rebellious attitude against his parents and his days spent on the streets while his mother is at work.…

James Baldwin was an African American novelist born in 1924, and passed away in 1987. He wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions, during an important time of history when these topics were finally being more widely discussed. Though he is an African-American writer, one may think Baldwin specifically wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions in solely America, but he actually travels over the world to tackle these issues. One of his works that covers those issues abroad is A…

MLK Rhetorical Analysis The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was a transformative event that changed the course of American history forever. Having long been denied their god given rights, African Americans had claimed victory in their long and tumultuous crusade for equality. However, some still vehemently opposed the movement. Dr. Martin Luther King, the face of black America, took on critics of his methods in his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. Exposing the hypocrisy of the eight…