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Race has been a major line of the American society since the colony’s century playing a powerful role in the political system throughout United States government. The term race has changed over and over throughout history. The term race has changed over and over throughout history. African-Americans history of separating people based on race created a clear view of how most racial minorities ' have treated throughout history and view and differences amount racial majority. This paper most important focus will be the experience racial minority faced throughout this historical revolution. African-Americans are not the only racial minority who being treated or racial bad mistreatment, Chinese American and Native American but African-American illustrates …show more content…

Because of this, you are correct, but whether black were free or slaves at this point of history, black rights or views were still being excluded from a system or country where leaders are chosen votes. The Fifteenth Amendment was passed giving African-American the right to vote even then there were still racial, discriminating toward black one of the reasons why the voting right act was passed in 1965, creating an umbrella for minority group who wanted the vote by taken away reading and writing ability test in some of the southern states. As the US Constitution stated in Amendment XV, "Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or earlier condition of servitude”(563). This quotation basically declares that all people who lawfully live in a country, state, etc. living in the United States have the right to vote, no one will be denied for any reason, yet voting, treating people unfairly based on their skin color is still in the present. After African-American gained the right vote in 1870, woman around this time-frame were treated unequally. A woman 's role was to take care of their household, wash, cook and clean, it wasn 't until the nineteenth century, when women were recognized as a product of a community of people, and woman right to vote includes …show more content…

Racial inequality within the school facilities has always been a major problem since 1800s, Plessy v. Ferguson was the first case to display this type of inequality within the school system, resulting the separation of facilities for education, having black and white attend a different school hoping to get the same education which in most cases it unlikely to happen. As senators Barack Obama stated, " Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven 't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today 's black and white students”(Obama,2008). As a result, there is now a big gap between black and white students in the board of education, affecting community of people money based/cheaply, the brown case was a very unforgettable part of black history. “A lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to give for one 's family, contributed to the erosion of black families - a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened” (Obama, 2008). This quote is basically saying as a result of this separating people by race, religion, etc., many blacks living in inner-city community fight for a high rate of student dropping out of high school due to pregnancy and drug state of being dependent on the drug which is still present. This case leads into another case, in 1955,

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FACTS: In 1951, a lawsuit was filed by Oliver Brown-lead plaintiff, and other African-American parents, to the Board of Education of Topeka,Kansas, whom is the defendant. The conflict occurred when Brown’s daughters got rejected to attend at a white elementary school near their house because of their race, and got sent to an all black elementary far away instead. Feeling segregated for his children and having to walk through dangerous railroads to the bus stop for school was a hassle, Brown brought the case to his Federal district court. Here, the judge ruled in favor of the Board of Education and stated that separation between African-American and white students in public education was okay as long as the conditions- teachers, transportations,

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Documentary Script: Introduction: [With a visual with Duncan] Narrator: Hey guys! Today we will be talking to you about how the events of the Civil Rights Movement affected the African American culture and society. Background of Civil Rights Movement: [With a visual of Duncan] Narrator: What was the civil rights movement you ask? The civil rights movement was a mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States during the mid- 1950’s.

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Jamelle Bouie’s article titled, Still Separate and Unequal-Why American schools are becoming segregated once again, touches on the history of desegregation in American schools but focuses how statistically minority students are more likely to attend majority- minority schools than in previous generations. This article points out that poverty and segregation play a direct role in the school system. While drawing connections between school segregation, concentrated poverty, entrenched segregation, and housing discrimination it also presents the authors not so optimistic view on future reforms to segregated schools, districts, and educational equality as he states in regard to education equality, “To do this, however, requires a commitment to

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The 14th Amendment of the Constitution emancipated the African-American slaves by stating that all citizens were to be free. Women were free in the United States;however, they were far from equal. The most significant way in which women weren’t equal is that they were not allowed to vote like their male counterparts. Women during the mid 19th century and into the early 20th century took notice of this fact and fought for years to give women the right to vote. Some women took what was viewed at the time as a radical approach by fighting for suffrage at the federal level, while other women took a more passive approach by fighting for suffrage at the state level.

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“Public schools for black children received less funding, less maintenance, and less teacher training,”(Source 1). Under those circumstances black children did not get as good of an education as white children. There were other issues regarding education to, for example in 1957 when integration started in Central High school segregationist harshly acted on the issue. ” When the black students, known as the “Little Rock Nine,” attempted to enter the Central High

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In 1870, the Fifthteenth Amendment was passed which allowed all African American men to vote, excluding women from that right. The women were still in the process of arguing women’s right to vote while the African American men were granted the right to vote. Between 1868 and 1873, women went to polls in large groups to vote in Washington D.C., New England, New York, Ohio, and Michigan. The women assumed their votes would not be counted or impact the outcome, but they still wanted to have the experience of voting.

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Women became more bold and unreserved and spoke out loud for the rights they believed they deserved, while Blacks created a whole new bounty of African American literature, art, and music. In the 1920s, women got to leave the house more often, and it was looked at as normal to not be a house mother all the time. Women realized that there was more out there for them, and that they should be treated like men. The first right they desired was the one to vote. The fight for women’s suffrage officially began at the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848, and continued for over seventy-two years before it was achieved.

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The supreme court case Brown v the Board of Education paved the way for a new level of opportunity for others who followed by ruling that the saying “separate but equal” was unconstitutional and that it violated the 14th amendment. Before 1954, many schools in the United States were racially segregated. This was made legal by the court case Plessy vs Ferguson, which ruled segregated public facilities were legal as long as they were equal. Brown v the Board of Education overruled this case. By doing that, it helped African-Americans by making segregation in schools illegal, providing better conditions in the classroom, and providing African-American students with more opportunities they had never previously received.

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The importance of race and white supremacy in U.S. society cannot be overstated. Race relations were particularly interesting from Reconstruction through the end of the 1920s within our own country and in our international relations. Reconstruction is an important time to begin because this is directly after the American Civil War, which was fought over slavery. The three main topics in the area of race during this era are the 13th-15th Amendments and how the Amendments were disregarded, white supremacy in international affairs, and how victims of racism banded together to fight for their rights.

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African American majority in the Southern States even after the emancipation proclamation still encounter segregation, oppression, disenfranchisement and racial violence. (National Park Service) The “separate but equal” doctrine was the foundation for discrimination which shines light on the dilemma of the African American people. With white ultimatum to dominate society using their unsupported white supremacist belief to intimidate and dissuade African American from their rights civil rights activists had to take the necessary step to protect the black American

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Even though the government adopted the Voting Rights Act in 1965, African Americans’ suffrages were still restricted because of southern states’ obstructions. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was important for blacks to participate in political elections, but before this act was passed, there were several events led to its proposal. The government gave African Americans’ the right to vote by passing the 15th Amendment, but in the Southern States, blacks’ suffrages were limited by grandfather clauses, “poll taxes, literacy tests, and other bureaucratic restrictions” (ourdocuments.gov). As times went on, most African Americans couldn’t register their votes.

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On Election Day in 1920, for the first time women exercised their right to vote. The road to Election Day was difficult and it took activists years to win that right. Up to this point gender inequality had been slowly diminishing. But on August 26, 1920, the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, giving all American women the right to vote. However, despite this progress, gender inequality continues in many forms, including career discrimination, disparity in women's politics, and sports.

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The history of the achievement gaps is complex, and many educators believe that there is no single primary cause for its existence and persistence. The period of segregation in the United States is most influential factor that has shaped the racial gap in education. Tracing back to the history, the term “segregation” notably appears in the education settings is through the Brown vs. Board of Education court case in 1954. Since the period of slavery, ethnic minorities, especially Blacks, have been placed in a disadvantaged setting in term of educational opportunity. However, in Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot separate schools for blacks and white students, which required schools to desegregate and provide

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The decision behind Brown versus Board of Education is bigger than a “won case “but a case that helped Americans realize interaction, companionship, and learning in a school setting among different races is detrimental and effective. The theory behind the concept was for Americans to change bias thought processes of race and notice success and academic goals is not associated with skin color. For generations to come, it is our responsibility now to reverse racial desegregation not only in schools but everywhere. Brown versus Board of Education was the stepping stone for many to take action. We must continue to

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Furthermore, African Americans are a good example of a racial group who has been victims of racism from early years till date. Mostly in the United States, African

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