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African Americans In The 20th Century Essay

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Repatriation In the 20th century, the blacks as a whole were hindered due to the outlook and barriers given with the questioning of race. All that was desire was just to pursue a society that grows upon a state of self-expression not worried by the ways of socialism or as we spoke upon in class, collectivism. Within the oncoming years which the ratification of the fourteen and fifteenth amendment where passed, it had gotten even tougher because although such laws had been passed, blacks were still not receiving the justification they sought out to receive. So why was it still that blacks could not and were not treated equally if not fairly? Blacks were often identified as loud and ignorant, which was what Americanism perpetrated Africans to be.
With the continued negative ideas grounded deep into the minds of Americans, Americans did not even want or feel the need to go into anymore depths of African-Americanism. Within my paper, I will be discussing the second question posted on the prompt that asked …show more content…

Delany, in this search for a place for African Americans, first arrived in Liberia where the reception was courteous, but not enthusiastic because he was known as an opponent of the American Colonization Society that preceded him. As Delany traveled through Liberia in the Egba-Yoruba region from Lagos to Ilorin, he never lost sight of his mission—to develop an African American nation in the heart of Africa, and thus establish a permanent linkage for Africans and their descendants in the New World. Delany’s mission was clearly a search for a homeland, and it is this homeland image, which served as the foundation for his identity as a black man. Frederick Douglass, when speaking about Martin Delany, said: “I thank God for making me a man, but Delany thank Him for making him a black

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