Southern United States

Americans had a very bad status during the 1930’s because of several reasons, one of these reasons is due to the Jim Crow Laws. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in…

Freedom is based on personal views. If someone has strict parents, they may see staying out past ten o’clock one night as freedom. However, someone who has parents that let them come and go doesn’t see staying out past ten o’clock as freedom. The African Americans viewed freedom based on everything that was occurring in society around them. Think about how many times someone has told you, you cannot do something but everyone else is doing it. That is the most frustrating thing in life, and to be…

ratification of both these amendments made the freedmen’s desires a lot easier to succeed. It said if you were born in the United States you were considered a citizen, no matter you skin color, and “no state could deprive you of your rights, liberty or property without due process of law” (Medley). This helped the freedmen because since a lot of them were born in the United States, they were now considered citizens, which gave them the right to liberty and property. With liberty and property…

After the Civil War, the United States encountered a period of recreating America after all of the destruction from the war and incredible loss in the population, and focusing on the rights and liberties of all Americans as equal under the Constitution--particularly in rebuilding the South. Such equalities, however, were difficult for many to comprehend. The post-Reconstruction era is the period which lasted from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. Post-Reconstruction consisted of…

Settings create the whole atmosphere of the story and foreshadow events and character development. But, in A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson the settings of the story serve an even more special literary meaning. In A Rose for Emily William Faulkner does it by creating a house that encompasses the main characters feelings. And in The Lottery Shirley Jackson does it by creating a Town Square with an eerie feeling of impending doom. Because of the effective use…

a social club of former confederate soldiers organized a group called the Ku Klux Klan, also known as the “KKK”. During Ulysses S. Grant election for the presidency, a reign of terror loomed over the South in the form of these white supremacists. Southern Democrats, in defiance of the Republican Federal Government, organized violent groups. The goal was to intimidate blacks and Republicans who tried to gain political power. This resulted in many deaths and the deterioration of the political…

The course of history was changed when Africans came to the United States. Africans had become something that America used to get their work done, they became a mere tool. The people 's hearts ' of America blackened more and more as they started to treat these human beings like animals, animals that should not have been there. Slavery was not just a physical act, but a mental one as well. Every time that a slave owner would force and beat them to do something, that is conveying that they contain…

Since the Reconstruction Era many years ago, the role and place of African Americans has significantly shifted. (pg. 589, pg. 1128) After 150 years of fighting for racial equality and de-segregation, African Americans experienced a great victory with the first black president in the White House, Barack Obama. (pg. 1228) In order to facilitate this transition from racial injustices to equality, a variety of social, cultural, and political changes were required. In the words of African American…

By 1895, African Americans in the South had been liberated for about thirty years. Yet, their situation had hardly improved. Economically, a few had been able to obtain land of their own and most continued to work for white proprietors under various forms of labor arrangements. Thus, “legal” segregation came about in the form of Jim Crow laws throughout the South. During this time violence, intimidation, and lynching were common. The situations blacks faced in the years after Reconstruction were…

Civil Rights and the Southern Response Civil rights is defined as the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. Throughout the history of America, our government and people have been notorious for violating the civil rights of those who reside here. Even today this still happens. For example, gay marriage was just legalized a little over a year ago. In some states today, a woman still cannot make the decision for herself whether or not she will get an abortion. And if you…