Jim Lovell

A famous Harlem Renaissance poet by the name of Claude McKay once described African Americans as “despised, oppressed, enslaved and lynched, denied a human place in the great life line of the Christian West” (McKay). While McKay was correct in saying that African Americans during the post-Reconstruction era of the 1880s to the 1930s experienced discrimination, their social standing still increased significantly. After the abolishment of slavery, African Americans anticipated social growth and a…

The Union League was a group created for the benefit and advancement of the rights of freedmen. The Union League consisted mainly of African American freedmen, with representative which were either black or white. The Union League is debated on how effective it actually was. The Union League in my opinion was effective in integrating African Americans into the American society, however not effective for its intended purpose which was to protect the rights of equality for freedmen. The Union…

The Help, released in 2011 and directed by Tate Taylor is a film which follows the story of a southern author Skeeter as she writes a book detailing the life of African American women, as they work as maids. The film is constructed to represents the perspective that African American women are being treated with inequality and discrimination while working as maids for white households. This perspective is constructed through the construction of setting, as the film is set in Jackson Mississippi…

Racial tensions in the south were stronger than ever due to the brown v board of education court case stating that segregated school was unconstitutional(the belief of white supremacy). The south reacted to the brown v board of education case through massive resistance where they allowed no whites to attend integrated schools, forced school boards to assign blacks and whites to different schools, and closed down schools to turn them private to whites.(Doc W)During the 1950s blacks were oppressed…

The first people to immigrate to America had come in search of some type of freedom, whether it was freedom of speech, freedom from an oppressive government, freedom to practice a religion openly, or even just freedom to own more land. These first immigrants in North America proclaimed they wanted freedom for all and that all people are created equal, which was the basis America was founded on. However, only time would tell what it truly meant to say that all people are equal. Before long,…

It is readily apparent that Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God works as a vanguard text in the pronunciation of equal rights for both women and African Americans. The manner in which this text presents these ideas is well documents. What has been less discussed in the manner in which Hurston presents this idea by means of replicating historical trauma and reorientation of personhood, thereby displacing women, not only as the new slave but as subhuman in order to call upon the…

Equality is something that is viewed as one of the main foundations that America was built on, yet it also is one of the core struggles that the U.S. has had to deal with over time. It was easy, for example, to vote to give African Americans the right to vote, but it was not easy to change the minds of the people that opposed them having the right to vote, and get them to treat African Americans as equals. Equality is the ability to have every person treated as an equal, for every person to have…

My research was mainly focused on police brutality and racism against African Americans. The key findings in my annotated bibliography were, (1) African Americans who have not violated any traffic laws are stopped and frisked by the police, (2) African Americans are ticketed by police more than whites, (3) African Americans are often handcuffed and humiliated by the police compared to others (4) In general African Americans have the fear of police at all times while driving, (5) African…

slaves had the same rights as everyone else after Lincoln declared them emancipated. The first Civil Rights Act passed in 1875 gave African Americans rights to be treated fairly in public and on public transportation. Ultimately, the court passed the Jim Crow laws separating the races in the South. In 1890, Louisiana had a separate car law that passed for black and whites. If blacks were found sitting in the white’s only area, they were fined. Plessy had a problem with legal segregation. He was…

rights of any kind and were just slaves with no freedom. And during the first years of the 20th century, Jim Crow Laws were passed and it allowed legal segregation. With this law, “Blacks and whites could not ride together in the same railroad cars, sit in the same waiting rooms, use the same washrooms, eat in the same restaurants, or sit in the same theaters” (Brinkley, 397). All in all, “…the Jim Crow laws also stripped blacks of many of the modest social, economic, and political gains they…