African American Struggles For Freedom

Struggle For Freedom For many of decades, women and African American people have truly had a hard time being granted their freedom and justice from society. Until 1963 for Africans and 1920 for women, these select groups were sincerely deprived of every natural right. These combined time periods led to mass rebellion, suffering, and unjust punishments. The struggle for freedom between these two groups led to the motivation to be equal along with their goals, the Civil Rights act/movement, and a woman’s desperation for freedom. Under historical documents, it clearly states that all people shall be granted equal rights. For example, in Brown V. Board of Education: Opinion of the Court, Earl Warren states, “Under that doctrine, equality treatment
These rights granted all men equal access and ability to be able to reach out to labor, education, etc. Led by Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and many others, Africans were equal to white men. “[Thomas] Jefferson wanted the Declaration of Independence to grant all freedom on men. However, at the Continental Congress in 1776, both northern and southern slaveholders objected to any mention of black rights” (“The Zigzag Road to Rights” 11). Jefferson and his repeated statements for equality goes against more than 75 percent of the white population at the time. The times of Civil War were very segregated times in which our country managed to fight through and even grant African American men their well-deserved equal
Around mid January, there was a seventy-five thousand women march down in downtown Los Angeles just days after Trump’s inauguration. In the short story, Ain’t I a Woman?, the author Sojourner Truth states “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better do it.” This quote proves how desperate some women were for their rights and their trust from everyone especially men. Women in history have never given a real chance to prove themselves as people and show that they are capable of doing just as much as most men are capable of accomplishing. Over time, women have slowly started earning there rights but till this day, they are not treated completely equal as most women would