Misunderstood African Americans In The 1800s

Misunderstood African American Folks of the USA

Can you imagine having to going to a different school then other people because you have blue eyes? Well that’s how white people treated African Americans through the 1800-1900’s and even still to this day in certain parts of our world. African Americans didn’t gain “freedom” until 1865 when the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery everywhere in the US. Although slavery had come to an end many new issues between white people and African Americans arose. Some issues that continued after slavery was the right to equal laws of all the people who were born in the US, segregation, and the right for African Americans to vote. An important part to the leading up to freedom of the African Americans in the United States of America was the right to equal laws for all races that were born in
the US. This law was written in the Constitution as the fourteenth amendment in 1868. This law made sure that no state could deny the rights of a persons “life, liberty or property, without due process of law.” It made sure law treated all people equally. Even though African Americans were to be treated equally by law, they were still fighting to be treated fairly in everyday life. In the 1900’s segregation made sure that black people were never to be seen with or by white folk.
Segregation is the action of setting someone or something apart from other people or things. Schools, restaurants, public transportation, and other facilities were to be separated between white and blacks. White people saw it as a sigma when Africans Americans began to stand up against segregation by starting to do sit-ins and protests. Anne Moody was one brave young woman when she and other members of the NAACP participated in a sit-in at Woolworth Counter. Anne and her fellow protests sat at a counter designated for white folk, but wanted to be served. They were tormented and beaten for just sitting there; nevertheless they finally made a point, as did other activists as well. When African Americans started to take a stand for freedom they did it deferential and with class. Eventually in 1954 the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education and then in 1964 the Civil Rights Bill banned segregation in work places and public
accommodations. African Americans didn’t gain the right to vote in America for a long time, even when the law deemed all people equal that didn’t grant them the right to have a say in how their country was run. In 1870 the fifteenth amendment gave the right to all men (of any race) to vote, but women of color (even white) didn’t get to vote until the nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920. This was a time in American history that made the public recognize that all people are equal. The US comprehended that all races were equal, now that segregation was no longer in act and men and women of all colors had the right to vote, American was on its way to great things.