By Jennifer E DeLaney
HIS 204
Instructor Henderson
family 25, 2011
Page 1: African Americans and Their Fight for Freedom
African Americans devote gone a long way and to great lengths to be accepted into society. They are merely people like you and I and have endured many hardships to be recognized and looked upon past their strip d take color. The following paper will describe some of these hardships when dealings with segregation, discrimination, and isolation and what they did to overcome it.
African Americans went through a destiny of segregation, notwithstanding with much patience they fought for their right to be considered an equal. In 1896, the Court set forth its famous separate but equal doctrine which provided the facilities for blacks and whites were equal. But, this was not enough. African Americans were limited to their own separate facilities such as hotels, theaters, public restrooms, and so on They were veto from many hospitals, denied access to parks, beaches, and picnic areas. But, in 1875 the Civil Rights ferment was passed prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, forcing whites to share hotels, railroads, theaters, etc. with blacks, making them equal.
It took many court cases and the passing of certain amendments to father African Americans equal rights among the Whites.
African Americans in the 50s were allowed to ride on the same buses and trains as the Whites. But, there was a city ordinance stating that African Americans had to give up their pose if a white man asked for it. The rule also express that no black person could even sit parallel on a bus with a white person. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42
Page 2: African Americans and Their Fight for Freedom
year old African American seamstress and former secretary of the NAACP, boarded a bus aft(prenominal) a long day of...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
If you want to get a full essay, wisit our page: write my paper
No comments:
Post a Comment