African Americans In The 1900's
African Americans had been mistreated many years before the Civil War in the United States, and around the world. When the Civil War ended they thought they would have as many rights as whites, but they were wrong. This mistreatment, segregation, and racism continued well past the turn of the century, and even beyond World War I. Nowadays African American soldiers, and citizens of the world alike have so many more opportunities than back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As Addie W. Hunton, Kathryn M. Johnson explain in, Two Colored Women With The American Expeditionary Forces, and Eric Foner in An American History: Give me Liberty! African Americans were being segregated and given less than optimal living conditions than white citizens
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Throughout the 1900s many new jobs were created due to the industrial boom, which offered many more opportunites to African Americans around the country. Then in 1914, World War I broke out in Europe. America soon got involved by send troops over to fight this bloody war. Included were African Americans who were still facing segregation in the United States. As they were brought over to Europe they were still faced with segregation, including seperate huts to live in and work that was a very daunting task, while the white soldiers did much less strenuous and heartbreaking work. As Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson were writing about this segregation in the war they wrote, “There was one notable incident of discrimination on the part of the Knights of Columbus. It occurred at Camp Romagne, where there were about 9,000 colored soldiers engaged in the heartbreaking task of reburying the dead. The white soldiers here were acting as clerks, and doing the less arduous tasks.” (Hunton and Johnson 26-39, 53-54) This was a heartbreaking task for the African American soldiers. Just think, burying your dead bunkmates that you might’ve just talked to yesterday. The African Americans knew that they just had to do this atrocious job, fearing that if they boycott it, there may be backlash in the form of a punishment even worse than the one they felt they were already
Throughout the 1900s many new jobs were created due to the industrial boom, which offered many more opportunites to African Americans around the country. Then in 1914, World War I broke out in Europe. America soon got involved by send troops over to fight this bloody war. Included were African Americans who were still facing segregation in the United States. As they were brought over to Europe they were still faced with segregation, including seperate huts to live in and work that was a very daunting task, while the white soldiers did much less strenuous and heartbreaking work. As Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson were writing about this segregation in the war they wrote, “There was one notable incident of discrimination on the part of the Knights of Columbus. It occurred at Camp Romagne, where there were about 9,000 colored soldiers engaged in the heartbreaking task of reburying the dead. The white soldiers here were acting as clerks, and doing the less arduous tasks.” (Hunton and Johnson 26-39, 53-54) This was a heartbreaking task for the African American soldiers. Just think, burying your dead bunkmates that you might’ve just talked to yesterday. The African Americans knew that they just had to do this atrocious job, fearing that if they boycott it, there may be backlash in the form of a punishment even worse than the one they felt they were already