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Examples Of African Americans Treated Unfairly

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Some people say that African Americans are getting treated better now than they used to, but in reality, they still get treated unfairly and get hated because of the color of their skin. Many years have gone by since African Amercians were able to have rights but for some reason, people still seem to see them in a horrible way as if they don’t deserve to be treated equally as everyone else. Some people tend to live in the past because of their ancestors and that’s what causes people to dislike African Americans because they were born and raised with those stereotypes. These stereotypes cause people to become stuck in the past instead of moving forward and accepting people no matter the color …show more content…

One of the many examples that shows how African Americans get treated differently is Ruby Bridges. Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to attend an all white elementary school in 1960. While attending school, she was discriminated against and treated differently from the rest. Although this was the situation, Bridges continued to go to school no matter what they said or thought about her, and no matter how she was treated. Her act of bravery is what changed history because no other African American had attended an all white school and it was something new to everyone. Many parents were against having a six year old African American attend an all white elementary school with the rest of their kids and they wanted her out of the school and didn’t want their kids around her to the point that they even threatened her and shouted at the six year old girl because the thought of Ruby being in the school with their kids disgusted them so much. This shows how much hatred people had towards African Americans and shows how people discriminated against them due to their skin and their …show more content…

Floyd was an African American that got pulled over by a police officer. He was asked to get out of the car and then the police officer proceeded to pin George Floyd down to the ground. The officer put his knee to Floyd’s neck, which had him gasping for air because of how much pressure the officer had on his neck, causing him to struggle immensely to breathe. This happened in 2020, which was not that long ago. This situation occurred because of the fact that Floyd was an African American. If it had been a White American, it wouldn’t have gotten that far and no one would’ve gotten murdered on that day. When it has to do with the law and police officers, African Amerians always get treated completely differently from White Americans and there is still no difference shown from years

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These officers subjected these victims to racial profiling and police brutality. Although not a police officer, George Zimmerman, a white neighborhood watchman, profiled the unarmed black Trayvon Martin and followed him because he saw “a suspicious person” in the neighborhood. In Zimmerman’s statement to the police he claimed that Trayvon assaulted him and also reached for his gun. Sandra Bland, an African-American, was driving through Texas where she had just moved to start a new job. She was stopped for a traffic violation when she was arrested.

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One of these reasons was that many parents did not want African Americans to attend the same school as their children. On the first day that Ruby Bridges attended the all-white elementary school, parents took their children out of school. They didn't see her as a child but, instead

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Ruby bridges and the other three black student helped to bridge the segregation gap so that people like me can go to any school and get an education equal to that of white people. If it were not for their bravery there is no telling how long segregation in schools would have

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Well, Jesse Jackson experienced that, and he strongly believed it shouldn’t have been that way. Jesse Jackson showed potential to get rid of racial divides since he was little. Growing up, he was a very serious student, and athlete, who believed in all people having equal rights. Jackson is still a very important person today. He was on the balcony, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot.

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For example, sanitation workers had to carry bags of garbage that had holes in them and since they were paid low wages, they ended up poor on welfare. Not only was this film was a way of seeing another turning point during the civil rights movement but also, African Americans fighting for justice. Even though I was not born during that time, I can understand how they felt because it wasn’t that easy. In today’s society racism isn’t as bad as what it was during that time. Besides we still have times were we face racism in our lives so I would say in some areas racism is still a

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In the Spike Lee film 4 Little Girls, it depicts the people and events leading up to the one of the most dreadful hate-crimes that occurred during the civil-rights movement in the city of Brimingham, Alabama. The wicked act was the church bombing which killed four little black girls respectively named Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. Within this city segregation was still a major factor just like in many other cities in the United States. For a child living in that time it was hard to comprehend how institutions operated and treated certain people due to the color of one’s skin. Many African Americans protested for their rights, eventually Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to protest and support them.

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The Scottsboro case contributed to this situation in a very large way. Before the case blacks were automatically judged because the color of their skin. The two women who were allegedly raped on the train were white. All eight of the men accused were black men under the age of twenty. Considering these things it is obvious to see that many people treated the Scottsboro boys differently, because of their skin color.

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Nothing unusual about a trainload of oranges because these days there are also planes carrying freight loads of oranges all over the world. However if this happened to be the very first bunch of oranges that were grown in southern California in the U.S. to be shipped out by transcontinental railroad from Los Angeles then that was something to get excited about. The first time that the rest of the U.S. states got the chance to enjoy oranges grown in California was on February 14, 1886. Guess you could say that it was sort of like a Valentine’s present.

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In the 1960s, schools were divided along racial lines with separate institutions for white and people of color. However, Ruby Bridges broke the color barrier by becoming the very first African-American student to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. Without knowing her first day would be at an all-white school, Ruby, for the rest of the school year, would frequently face racism and racial segregation almost every day. Her courageous act remains a significant milestone in the fight for equal access to education.

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Ruby went to a all white school because Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered schools to integrate. Black children had to take a test and the top five scores were asked to integrate. In the 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges changed America by walking up the steps of a white only school to gain an education. To survive this experience, Ruby had to rise above the prejudice, face her fears, and find the strength in her faith. Ruby overcame abundance of prejudice.

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Michael Brown’s shooting involves a racial tension between blacks and whites since Brown was unarmed and surrendered. In Ferguson, the majority of people are African Americans, and the majority of police officers are white. On the night of the shooting incident, Brown was walking home and confronted by Wilson because Wilson thought Brown was suspicious. There was a struggle between Brown and Wilson. According to Brown’s friend, Wilson started the fight.

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A poor innocent African-American boy was shot to death, because his image brought him up to look like a robber, according to a white cop. The white cop did what anyone apparently is expected to do, and shoot what was somehow “threatening” him. Is the cop in jail? No, they let him go because it was meant to be an act of “self defence”. The fact that he murdered an innocent boy for completely no good reason, has been totally ignored. "

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