African Americas have progressed through the course of the United States History, however to say the least, it was a very long struggle for them to be able to get as far as they have. African Americans have somehow over the years kept their culture and ways of life that have came from their ancestors. An African American lady, Margaret Walker once said “Handicapped as we have been by a racist system of dehumanizing slavery and segregation, our American history of nearly five hundred years reveals that our cultural and spiritual gifts brought from our African past are still intact” she shows how much pride she has in her own culture, and even expresses how resilient they are. She also talks about the “gifts” that the culture has, I feel like she means that the black culture was very structural towards each other. Because everyone that was African American knew how hard it was in the civil right era, so …show more content…
If African Americans were found having an equal opportunity at an education, the punishment ranged from fines and imprisonment to even death at some points. When slavery had ended, the south still limited the African Americans the access to a fair education due to the Jim Crow laws. Most states required blacks and whites to attend different schools, which caused a major uproar on discrimination and inequality from the social standpoint. Many of the African American activist had tried to challenge segregated school systems legally, but had failed until the case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. The NAACP decided to represent the Brown family, which was finally taken to the Supreme Court. The Court took Marshall’s argument (Marshall which was the head lawyer of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and exploited the doctrine of the “separate but equal” facilities for