America has come along way to end segregation and unify no matter what race you are. I am going to discuss how blacks and Indians became accepted in society. Back in the 1800’s, Slavery was a big issue in the South and split the races. The KKK was born and lead by Nathan With Reconstruction, there came Amendments that abolished slavery. The whites were left empty handed on help around the farms and needed cheap labor.
The Freedman’s Bureau was created to supply freed slaves with food, clothes, medical care, and labor contracts. The South did not agree with the abolishment of Slavery or this help for them so they decided to fight back with The Black Codes. The Black Codes were accepted by President Johnson in 1865. They were basically labor rules that re-enslaved the blacks.
In the 1890’s, the Populist Party (poor farmers of the South) wanted equality of the races. The wealthy people of the South were afraid the blacks and Populist would join forces and over power the white mans party in voting. This brought about the Jim Crow Laws in the 1890’s. These were Federally regulated that were a response to a new reality that required white supremacy to move to where it would have legal and institutional basis to retain control over the black population.
Whites knew that they had to do this to retain white supremacy. Whites had never been threatened throughout Slavery and The Black Codes; they were in complete power. In 1896, there was a case called Plassey v. Ferguson. It made separate facilities for whites and blacks. Blacks began showing up a lot in wars over seas in the army.
The Essay on The White Slavery
Annie Besant describes the conditions of the London Match Workers as a kind of white Slavery, but does their condition really match those of the slaves brought to the Americas? The conditions of both reflect social debates of their times, where human beings were treated as property. I see both parallels and differences between the conditions of Londons working class and the African slaves brought ...
Around 1915, the KKK is reborn. It spreads all over the US and has new racist towards Blacks, Catholics, and Semitic people. They try and say its proabition, and that it’s a good organization. The Harlem renaissance comes about also in the twenties, this is the discovery of black culture. The Anti- Lynching and NAACP comes about.
Several people in Major League Baseball tried to end the segregation of sports, no one succeeded until the Brooklyn Dodger’s Branch Ricky set his “great experiment” into motion. In 1945, the Jim Crow policies of baseball would be changed forever when Branch Rickey would bring Jackie Robinson into the Major Leagues in 1947. In 1954, Brown v. the Board of Education was a major blow to the Jim Crow System. The plaintiffs not only attacked inequality, but segregation itself. On May 17, 1954, the new chief justice made an opinion of the court in favor of the Negro plaintiff.
This caused a huge controversy and the case was put off for a year. On May 17, 1955, a decision was made that was the most momentous of the century in civil rights. This began what is known as the “Civil Rights Movement” and began the end of the Jim Crow Laws. This did not terminate the laws but they stood on shaken ground. There were many famous names that came about in the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks Would not get up and lose her seat to a white man, she was arrested and taken off the bus.
Martin Luther King lead the Bus Boycott where no more blacks will ride the bus. In 1957, there is tha Civil Rights Act that helps Blacks to vote. After a ruling to end all segregation there is a school incident in Little Rock where 9 black children must be escorted to an all white school by the national guard. In 1963, Bull Conor releases attack dogs and fire hoses black protestors.
1965 is the year of the rise of black power. There was an optimistic mood after the end of the long crusade of slavery and segregation. The emancipators tried to proclaim the emancipated equal. There is still to this day grudges held towards both races but we continue to stand together in unity..
