Effects Of Discrimination On African Americans

Additionally, the expansion of the belief that African-Americans were biologically inferior, uncivilized and dangerous, resulted in discrimination against them, further undermining progressive relations between whites and blacks. This belief caused many white employers to generally deny black men places in the budding white labor movement, instead choosing to employ immigrant workers from Britain and Ireland. It was also promoted by the American Colonization Society, which was dedicated to physically removing and settling manumitted slaves on the coast of West Africa, in order to eliminate such a degraded class that could provoke conflict in an act of vengeance on their former masters.