African American Report
My Historical Report on African American
I choose to go with African American Race; I know more about African American culture personally.
I grew up with mostly African American and bi-racial friends as a child and enjoyed being around them.
What have been the experiences of this racial group throughout U.S. history?
Throughout the U.S. History the African American race have experienced Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) who pushed strides for freedom. He believed that people should have the right to disobey unjust laws under certain circumstances. He believed that people should have the right to disobey unjust laws under certain circumstances called civil disobedience. A boycott went on over his rights and what he stood for the boycott lasted 382 days. In December 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Blacks and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Black leader of the first rank.
The African Americans had to deal with apartheid. Apartheid was a system of government in South Africa, abolished in 1994. Also where there was a policy for the South African Government intended to maintain separation of the blacks and whites. Homelands’ were created for Blacks, and when they lived outside of the homelands with Whites, non-Whites could not vote and had separate schools and hospitals, and even beaches where they could swim or park benches they could sit on. The system of Apartheid came to an end when President Nelson Mandela came to power in 1994. “White Primary” it was one of several means used by white southern politicians in the first half of the twentieth century to control black political power as a way of limiting the ability of African Americans to play a part in the political process African Americans had to go without voting in
I choose to go with African American Race; I know more about African American culture personally.
I grew up with mostly African American and bi-racial friends as a child and enjoyed being around them.
What have been the experiences of this racial group throughout U.S. history?
Throughout the U.S. History the African American race have experienced Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) who pushed strides for freedom. He believed that people should have the right to disobey unjust laws under certain circumstances. He believed that people should have the right to disobey unjust laws under certain circumstances called civil disobedience. A boycott went on over his rights and what he stood for the boycott lasted 382 days. In December 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Blacks and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Black leader of the first rank.
The African Americans had to deal with apartheid. Apartheid was a system of government in South Africa, abolished in 1994. Also where there was a policy for the South African Government intended to maintain separation of the blacks and whites. Homelands’ were created for Blacks, and when they lived outside of the homelands with Whites, non-Whites could not vote and had separate schools and hospitals, and even beaches where they could swim or park benches they could sit on. The system of Apartheid came to an end when President Nelson Mandela came to power in 1994. “White Primary” it was one of several means used by white southern politicians in the first half of the twentieth century to control black political power as a way of limiting the ability of African Americans to play a part in the political process African Americans had to go without voting in