Jim Thorpe

Historical Context The segregation in education began with Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896. Plessy v. Ferguson, “which upheld the doctrine that ‘separate but equal’ facilities for blacks and whites were constitutionally permissible, justified separate (usually inferior education of African American children in both the North and South” (Cusher, 2015, p. 38). The segregation of schools continued until 1954. The ruling of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka laid the foundation of desegregation in the…

Disobedience is necessary for human progress. Without disobedience we would not have many of the famous historical icons we have today. People automatically assume we need obedience in order to progress in life. In some instances this is true, but everyone has the right to go against what one thinks is wrong. Disobedience has changed the world to have more egalitarianism and different outcomes of felife historically. Today, the constitution functions differently than decades ago, thanks to the…

In my opinion I honestly believe there’s nothing an African American during World War II could do to Equal Rights. Africans Americans were fighting for their lives and also other people lives, they felt as if they could fight physically then they could fight verbally for their civil rights. There has been lots of changes since my grandparents but my parents a few things have change but most things are still the same. My grandmother was born during segregation and before the Great Depression.…

The end of Jim Crow racism was by no means the end of racism entirely. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, American behavioral scientist, published The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, “Post-Racial” America in 2015 to “describe the lacking racial order of America in the post–Civil Rights era” (Bonilla-Silva 1359). Bonilla-Silva simply puts that the when the Jim Crows were revoked in the late 1960’s that didn’t mark the “end of racism” or even the “declining significance of race” by any means. Rather,…

From the 1865 to 1900 African-Americans faced many challenges. There was many things that were changing in that time frame. Yes, slaves were freed and they were given some rights. But it was at a cost since the whites limited them. So there were struggles socially, poltically and econmically. Socially the struggles for African-Americans were that there wasn't many jobs for them. Also they barely got paid while the whites got paid more and had more jobs. Another one was that African-Americans…

Throughout United States history, African Americans suffered through a great deal of discrimination, hate crimes, police brutality, Jim Crow laws, poverty, and hate groups. Incidents that transpired during this are not typically a part of the American school curriculum. One such example of hidden African American history was the destruction of Black Wall Street. Black Wall Street was one of the most successful black neighborhoods in American history. It all came to an end when a white mob, led…

Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna come” appeals to the emotions of any listener going through a period of hardships. Being that the song was written in the mid 1960’s, it has been related to the civil rights period. The civil rights movement was a mass popular movement to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. Although the roots of the movement go back to the 19th century, it peaked in the 1950s and 1960s. African…

army did not employ African Americans in any role. Jim crow laws, were racist laws that encouraged separate but equal treatment of African Americans. These laws were used as justification for preventing African Americans from becoming U.S. pilots. Marc Wortman suggests that many black pilots before WWII…

A Jim Crow law is a complex system of laws and customs that separates races from each other. Jim crow laws were unfair and foul to the colored race because many of the laws made their lives harder and the laws didn't balance their rights equally. They are not allowed to drink from the same water fountain and some laws state that they are not allowed to go to the same schools. Occasionally, colored people will get the rejected or the undesired facilities. An example of a Jim Crow law would be…

On January 1, 1893, President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery, but what was left behind was racism. Racism was a huge issue in the mid-1900s. It was predominantly affecting the African American community. To address this issue, the African-American Civil Rights Movement started in 1954. Its goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination. One very well-known Civil Rights Leader was Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King was also an American Baptist Minister and activist. MLK wrote a…