African American women have been among the many races in America that were forced to do slavery and struggles for their rights for many years; although they have made much progress they do still have people who mistreat them simply for being another race. Although the civil rights movement began in 1954, the first recorded slave revolt was back in 1663 proving that all African Americans have been working for centuries in order to get the same rights as white people have. Luckily, all their hard work caused all slaves to be freed in 1865 then the The Civil Rights Act of 1964 which ended segregation of people based on their ethnic background. But, unfortunately, African American women still do deal with major issue simply based on their race. With stress of racism being a possible cause for a high mortality rate in African American mothers, slurs still be frequently thrown around due to it being “just a word”, and we still even have neo-nazis/white supremacists marching around and claiming to be above all non-white people.
The first slave revolt began in 1663 where it was a mixture of white and african americans fighting to have other slaves freed. This revolt was dubbed “The Gloucester County Conspiracy” and took place in Virginia. Nine indentured
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who lead many peaceful marches, Claudette Colvin who inspired Rosa Parks, Little Rock Nine who were a group of nine african american students to be among the first to go to a school where previously white students were the only allowed. All of these people faced harsh discrimination for their actions in trying to achieve equality but at the same time they inspired so many others to get up and work harder. It took years and years of work but there was so much progress made and effort put in by so many people with such a strong passion to give everyone equal opportunities that things started to change and become