African Americans In The Civil Rights Movement

Introduction In America, the earliest Africans viewed in the same way as indentured servants from Europe. Unfortunately this similarity did not continue for a long time. By the latter half of the 17th century clear differences existed in the treatment of black and white servants. A 1662 Virginia law assumed Africans would remain servants for life. The awakening of Negroes in America in the early part of this century resulted due to turbulent social experience in the white society. Besides being tortured by racial discrimination, the migrated and settled Negroes in America began to undergo various types of stress and strain in order to survive in a hostile environment, which includes social, political and economic bearing.

Types of Slavery

The black leader Martin Luther King adopted nonviolent actions to fight against racial oppression. During the 1960s, black people as a category organized struggles. They actively engaged in the political activism, striving for classless reforms and freedom.

In short, Civil Rights movement won political rights for blacks. It brought more opportunities of education, the right to vote, and better jobs for black people. It set stage for the development of black politics in the 1970s and 1980s. This act not only fought perceptions of racial inferiority but also brought changes to the stereotypes of black people. The desire generated by this act to claim black’s cultural heritage with their voices is great and strong. It gave black people a voice and established the principle of

It is a complex literary work that also seeks to understand the impact of slavery, both on the psychology of individuals and on the larger patterns of culture and history. Morrison was drawn to the historical account, which brought up questions of what it meant to love and to be a mother in a place and time where life was often devalued. Beloved is not just a story to tell for amusement; this is not a story to pass by; this is not a story to tell lightly because once you tell it things will never be the same. But this is also not a story that you will ever fully comprehend. Morrison takes her turn to denounce slavery and long for the freedom on behalf of all slaves.To show the historical truth that collective struggle is the only practical solution for African People, Morrison writes a historical novel, Beloved, which explores most oppressed period of slavery in the history of African people. The novel portrays successful development of the "black identity" in times when a black person was denied it. Morrison reveals the horror of slavery in explicit detail, elaborating upon the physical and mental abuses suffered by Sethe, Paul D, and the other Sweet Home slaves. Beloved not only speaks for the slaves whose voices were silenced, but also contributes to Morrison's critique of the aesthetics that has dominated American culture and its canon of