How did the Civil War impacted our Civil Right issues of modern time? In other word how does the Civil war impact the right of some particular group, such as African American. How did their life changes? In the earlier time of the civil war, free black man and escaped slave was been banned to serve in the union army. Because Lincoln think it would push finally being accepted to enlist in the US army service. Lincoln administration the idea to create 180000 new African American to sign up. He also worried that this decision would encourage the border state to secede. However African Americans faced additional situation that is based on the racial prejudice among white soldier. Even though African American were accepted by the federal law, but still didn’t being accepted by white mentally. During that period of time, most white think African American is lacking of discipline and mental ability, they acting like a child. Also they think slavery is worn their manhood out, will make them irresponsible or very dependent, in other word like a troublemaker, so white soldiers think the African American lack of the ability to fight well. …show more content…
So white soldiers refused to paid African as the same as white. Overall African American only paid 10 dollars per month, which was deducted from clothing, and some other supplies. In the other hand White soldier gets paid 13 dollars a month without from being deducted from cloth and other supplies. According to the movie Trip complained that is unfair to be payed less than White man, he think we all human, white isn’t born noble than black, so he lead all other black soldiers to go against this racial prejudice
This section also mentions that black soldiers ended up receiving a lower pay, so the 54th Massachusetts Regiment refused to accept pay until it was equal, which was shown in the
The key aspect discussed here is the difference and similarities between African American soldiers and white soldiers, in the Civil War. In the past African Americans were slaves in the south part of the United States. However, when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans were freed in the Confederate states. According to the American Nation book, when the war began, thousands of free African Americans volunteered to fight for the Union. In addition, the army assigned African Americans to all-black units commanded by white officers.
This desire was met with road blocks and opposition so that whites could continue to feel superior. In an attempt to give truth to the claims that blacks were ignorant and incapable of handling advanced aircrafts, the Airmen were given inferior equipment and facilities. Despite these blatant displays of inequality and attempts to make them fail, they were determined to succeed and help the country win the war. The Airmen were still treated unfairly after the war was over despite the many accomplishments that they achieved in the war.
The other aspect that changed the perception was the involvement of different religious groups towards ensuring equality to all groups. Why the blacks considered to be weak to be soldiers The thoughts and the remarks were
We are fully armed, and equipped, have done all the various duties pertaining to a Soldier’s life…” (Gooding, 221). The blood of his fellow man has stained the ground that protected Union, so they deserve to be paid as equals to those of a lighter skin. Time after time, before and during the war, black men were refused the privilege to fight for their nation. Now that their country needs them most, the question remains as to why they are not equally treated and rewarded as others who fight for the same thing.
African Americans had an extremely pivotal role in the outcome and consequences of the Civil War. This group of people were enslaved, and forced to work in horrible conditions, for the whole day, without pay. Slaves were one of the main causes of the Civil War. The issue of Slavery, which resulted in the eventual economic and social division between the North and South, caused the creation of the Confederate States. African Americans did not only unintentionally cause the war, but they also effected the outcome of the war, and the eventual consequences the nation would face after the war.
The restriction on blacks enlisting exasperated the blacks in the Union Army, an abolitionist by the name of Frederick Douglass was an advocate for the recruitment of black soldiers, he stated to the nation in an article of the Douglass Monthly on just how to end the war. Douglass put pen to paper and stated, “let the slaves and free colored people be called into service and formed into a liberating army into the South and raise the banner of Emancipation.” (Mitgang, 1989) Douglass believed that it was imprudent for the Union army’s to carry on fighting the Confederacy without the help of Negro soldiers, so Douglass asked, ‘why does the Government reject the negro? Is he not a man?
The civil war had a very profound effect on America and what it has become today. With the civil war many changes took place such as 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. Women’s rights were put forth into motion. Along with Reconstruction laws being passes and the push back that these laws caused. During this time the south became even more divided and started to take things into account and create their own laws in regards to racism.
The whites would call out African Americans by saying racist things and not accept them more than slaves. Also, they were beaten by the British soldiers. Along with that, the British soldiers “burned and looted, and pulled down the houses of free blacks who underbid their labor in the area.” (Nash
The American wars had certain effects on the black soldiers such as freedom; Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves as from 1863.The army used blacks not as slaves any more but as paid workers. Even though they received less pay than whites did, they achieved equal pay after a successful lobby. Significant roles of colored troops led to the African-Americans gaining new rights (Dudziak, 2011). The acts of rebellions by organized soldiers of Union Army dwarfed all other injustices and General Butler declared refugee slaves as contraband and later as a policy.
When a story aligns itself so deliberately with real individuals from history and strongly claims to have rights of representation of events on lands where they actually took place in the way Gettysburg chose to do from the very beginning of the film, it automatically takes responsibility for accuracy. Leaving out the important portrayals of how life was for the Confederate and Union Armies by failing to fill in the background makes the Confederates meeting the criteria of passive racists by simply applying slurs when in fact the invasion of Virginia opened up opportunities for their actively aggressive racism and physical oppression of all African-Americans of Gettysburg. By having the only African-American in the film be featured as an escaped prisoner whose only salvation was provided by the Federal Army dismisses the background role of African-Americans throughout the entire war as cooks, tailors, and construction workers. The story is told strictly from the perspective of the important people during the Battle of Gettysburg but did not accurately portray the community and daily life of the Civil War, the decisions of those in command affected citizens in Gettysburg at the time. We see this occurrence in other events described in modern-day history, including the portrayal of Napoleon, Alexander The Great, Julius Caesar, and Christopher Columbus.
Post Civil War, African Americans started to gain rights to gain rights, and soon gain rights equal to whites. While there were some people/things standing in their way (KKK, Black Codes), in the end they got what they needed; Equality. Many acts and laws were passed to aid the new rights now held by African Americans, as well as the numerous people willing to help. New Amendments were added to give African Americans rights after the war, all giving them some equal rights to whites. The first of the three added was the Thirteenth Amendment, it gave African Americans freedom from slave owners, and stated that no one could be kept as a slave in the U.S..
The African Americans had a big impact on the Civil War. They had to have all of these laws and papers wrote because of the slavery deal. They had the role of the debate for slavery. They were the slaves and they wanted to have their freedom. The Declaration of Independence said that, “All men are created equal”, but the slaves were not free.
In order to look at the impact that the Civil Rights Movement had on society today it is important to first look back at where it all began. The author will base her opinion around the change in American culture, as America is one of the most powerful countries in today’s modern society and many countries follow the lead of America. The fight for justice and equality went on for many years in America and it has become one of the most well known movements in history. The note to take action all started when the African-American citizens decided that they
A young soldier wrote a letter to the NAACP “ If I fight, suffer, or die it will be for the freedom of every black man to live equally with other races. If the life of the Negro in the United States is right as it is lived today, then I would rather be dead” (Takaki 23). Camp conditions for black soldiers were degrading, they could not go to church services, and other training programs were segregated. Despite these conditions, African Americans contributed significantly to the war effort with support work and had some of the toughest battalions, including the well-respected 99th Pursuit Squadron and 332nd Fighter Group.