Has the position of african americans changed over the years?

« Today I have chosen to introduce you to a subject related to the theme "relation to the world" and the axiom "common heritage and diversity".

For this, I will be focused on one main question: "Has the position of african americans change since slavery?" I decided to deal with this topic because, as we all know, the African American population and culture are now part and parcel of the United States.

However, it has not always been the case, far from it actually, and I find it fascinating how they managed, after all they have been through, to rise to the top of one of the most powerful countries in the world, just like Barack Obama. Although the Black population has come a long way since slavery, they still have to face inequalities, discrimination, and differential treatments on many aspects of life. Fist we’ll see that they have always been discriminated against Then that hey have some influence And finally, that racial inequalities persists To have a better comprehension of the situation, I'll start from the beginning in 1619 when 20 Africans arrived in the state of Virginia by boat.

Then began slavery with the first slave sale in 1655.

Slave trade lasted 246 years, mostly in southern states, even if all the USA was concerned.

In fact, in 1720 in South Carolina, almost 65% of the population were slaves, mainly working on cotton fields and plantations.

This awful period ended in 1865 after the Civil War between southern states and northern states and thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 under Abraham Lincoln's presidency.

Despite their supposed freedom, Black people, especially from the South, had to suffer from segregation.

It was a way for white people to get around the law concerning equalities with the Black community assured by the constitutions.

During this time, Black people had to suffer from insecurities, inequalities, and terrible violence.

One particular group of people was at the head of these actions, the Ku Klux Klan also called KKK or the Klan.

It's a secret terrorist society founded by white supremacists for white supremacists in 1865.

Their goal was to abolish civil rights for African Americans and to restore white Protestant supremacy.

To support my remarks, I'll introduce you to the first document, which is a speech from 1923 where the city of Dallas devoted one day of its famous State Fair of Texas to the Klan, where Imperial Wizard Hiram. Wesley.

Evans made a keynote speech in which he clearly expressed the group's wishes to withdraw the Black community from the country and stop its growth by giving false information.

As I quote: "Both biology and anthropology prove it ...

The records, authoritative and unemotionally scientific, show the Negro to be specially susceptible to tuberculosis and alarmingly vitiated by venereal infections.

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On account of their hate of minorities they were responsible for most of the lynchings that Black people underwent." In the meantime, from 1877 to 1964, tu From all of those oppressions is born the civil rights movement, it's all of the struggles and demonstrations led by African American citizens to try to obtain equality.

I'm sure that you know some of its leaders such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King or Malcom X who has influenced the creation of the black panther party showed in the fourth document. in fact after his death a revolutionary movement was born in 1966.

Its aim is to put an end to daily bullying and violence imposed by the police on African Americans.

All of thosefights have contributed to the living conditions of African Americans nowadays.

To be where they are today, they've been through, among thousands of other people, awful violence to get their rights, including peaceful demonstrations that went wrong, just like the Bloody Sunday. In fact, the second document, which is a picture taken in Chicago on July 26, 1965, shows hundreds of supporters and members of the Chicago Freedom Movement march along State Street.

This march went down in history as Bloody Sunday for the violent beatings state troopers inflicted on protesters as they attempted to march peacefully from Selma, Ala., to the state capital, Montgomery.

The march was aimed at fighting the lack of voting rights for African Americans.

Finally, after more than a hundred years and thanks to all those fights, it stopped in 1964 thanks to the Civil Rights Act which gave all Americans the same rights. Now that I've set the context, I'll try to show you the impact that African Americans have on current American society.

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