Oppression Against African-American Women

Oppression Against African-American Women Black women in the last 100-200 years have been oppressed and mistreated. After going through the Civil War, they were free from their white masters, but not all young girls were free from their parents or husbands that treated them poorly. Alice Walker was a famous African-American woman who wrote the book The Color Purple and the short story “Everyday Use”. She showed examples of oppression of black women in both.
The Color Purple was about a fourteen year old black girl, Celie, who had two kids by her father and then was given away to a man who preferred her sister. Women were treated like slaves and didn’t have a say in their own future. Celie and her younger sister Nettie were torn apart and were not allowed to see each other. “Everyday Use” was about an older African-American woman. Her daughter Dee rejected her slave ancestors along with her name, and instead acknowledged her African roots instead. Dee’s name could be traced back through their family all the way to the Civil War, where the ancestor was named by a slave owner.
African American women experienced racism first. They were slaves in the
The movie Hidden Figures takes place in 1961, towards the end of segregation. An African-American woman, Katherine Goble, is working in the colored computers part of NASA, when she is assigned to work with the Space Task Group. She is the only black woman on the team and is subject to racism in her office, such as segregated coffee pots and walking half a mile every day to use the colored bathroom. Her friend Mary Jackson is assigned to work with the space capsule heat shield team, where she points out an important issue with the heat shield and is encouraged to become an engineer. To do this, she must complete a class that does not admit black students. She takes it to court and is allowed to start the