Individual African Americans During The 1980's

Individual African Americans were achieving success during the 1980’s. Some examples were Condoleezza Rice and Colin Power, who worked under the administration of George W. Bush. Jesse Jackson also ran for president but lost the election because of the racism.After 1961 affirmative action was established in order to compensate for the past mistreatment and discrimination. However, African Americans had mixed beliefs on the affirmative action. Some believed that this was reassuring compensation for the past mistreatments, and others believed that this implicitly encouraged the distance of African American community from American’s ideals and notion of individualism.
African Americans also began to preserve the memories of Civil Rights activities
through Civil Rights museums and Black Heritage tourisms during the 1980’s. Additionally, African American Culture became more mainstream and significant to the American Culture after the Black Power era. African Americans were achieving value and success through music, sports and politics. The younger generation of Urban African Americans first showed their expressed themselves though the Hip-Hop culture in 1965. Hip-hop culture was valued to represent authentic blackness, especially through rap music. Tupac Shakur came to be a representative figure for the Hip-Hop generation. Although the Hip-hop culture was becoming a significant aspect of the American culture, it did not capture the essence of all Black Americans as a group.