Comparing The Holocaust And The Pre-Civil Rights Movement

January 13, 2014

The Holocaust And The Pre-Civil Right Movement The Holocaust was a period of time in Germany where there was a massive slaughter of Jews. The Pre-Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America was a period of time that connected the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement in which African Americans set out to claim their rights as U.S. citizens. The Holocaust had more Jewish deaths over a span of 12 years than African American deaths in the USA over a span of 40 years because the large amount of Jews in concentration camps spread diseases much faster, they were killed with poison nerve gas while the African Americans were hanged, and they died of starvation and hard prison work. When the Nazis took over Germany in

The pre-Civil Right Movement was very dangerous for the African Americans, for everything they did, they were judged upon. It was not until the 13th Amendment that slavery was abolished all throughout the country. Later the second Ku Klux Klan, terrorized the newly freed African Americans in the 1920’s to keep the black people ‘in their place’. The hanging of African Americans in the early 1900’s to the mid-1900s is 5,000, much less than the Jewish deaths, but equally

Lynching is killing someone by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. That means the African Americans did not have a legal trial and were hanged innocently. Lynching were frequently committed with the most flagrant public display. Lynching were covered in local newspapers with headlines spelling out the horrific details. Photos of victims, with exultant white observers posed next to them, were taken for distribution in newspapers or on postcards. Many victims were black businessmen or black men who refused to back down from a fight. With lynching as a violent backdrop in the South, Jim Crow as the law of the land, and the poverty of the sharecropper system, blacks had no recourse. This emphasis of restraint ensured black folks would remain impoverished, endangered, and without rights or hope. The African Americans were threatened, and scared all throughout the pre-Civil Right Movement. Black folks who worked as share-croppers with the white folks received low wages and unfair proportions. Following the passage of the fifteenth Amendment, which granted all the males in the United States of America the right to vote, Southern states took immediate steps to prevent the blacks males from