Question 1: The south during the time period of 1877-1920 was not characterized by racial equality. This time period was the redemption period where white southerners looked to regain control and to demote the African-American southerners to second-class citizenship. After the reconstruction period ended, the Freedman’s Bureau and the Union troops left the south. This led to the beginning of the Jim Crow laws. The reason the redemption period was so successful was the government officials were friends with big business owners who profited off the cheap labor. Therefore, the government turned a blind eye to the racial inequality in the south. One example of how they did not show racial equality is through political discrimination. Even though …show more content…
The African-American males, who are looking for work after they had been freed, are now working for the white male. They were not paid fairly at all. One technique white business owners used was sharecroppers. A sharecropper is when a black man is paid based on the output of his work. Another technique they used to show racial inequality through the economy is tenant farmers. The white men that owned business basically got free labor because the African-Americans were paid in room and …show more content…
The economy also grew through the help of J.P. Morgan. For a while, Morgan was the nation’s banker. In 1893, railroad companies fell into bankruptcy and J.P. Morgan stepped in and personally bailed them out. Morgan served as America’s bank until the Federal Reserve Bank was formed in 1896. The formation of monopolies during the Gilded Age also aided in helping the economy. Monopolies would coordinate with other businesses to set prices and to set policies. One example is the railroad monopoly. Cornelius Vanderbilt controlled several railroad companies and soared into wealth. With a monopoly over the railroads, he was able to cut out the middle man by reducing the power of the individual managers. John D. Rockefeller also controlled a monopoly only his was in oil. He was able to control 90% of the oil industry by playing one rail line against the other then buy the companies out. Another monopoly was through the steel industry, Andrew Carnegie was able to control the steel market by owning all the steps in the supply chain and every step in production. Steel during the Gilded Age was an innovation that was vital in the growth of the railroad network. To build the tracks required steel, and Carnegie capitalized on this opportunity by controlling most of the steel to sell to the railroad companies. In the photo “The Gilded Age,” it depicts that the big business owners became very
Overview: Calvin Holly’s A Black Union Soldier’s Letter Protesting Conditions After the War was written to Major General O. O. Howard on December 16, 1865 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Holly tells Howard how people of color have been struggling to survive since the end of the Civil War. Holly describes how freedman and women have faced challenges like losing their homes, sleeping in the freezing cold, being forced back into slave-like living conditions, and being murdered and left in the street. Holly calls for equal rights to that of a white man.
Another major Form of racial discrimination was unfair wages. When it came to public works programs paying for wages, African American wages were 30 percent lower than the white workers, who at the time barely had enough money for subsistence (Sustar). For the most part African Americans were classified as “Unskilled”, even when they were skilled, stereotypes kept them from earning fair wages in most urban workplaces (Rose). One of the worst parts of the whole situation was that Working class White women, yes i said working class not rich, employed Black women for as little as 5$ per week for full time laborers in northern cities (Trotter). These White women had enough money to pay for, essentially what was a maid or housekeeper.
This relates because depending on the employer, they will decided how long a worker has to work and when the debt is considered "paid". In som cases, the worker paid off their debt and that was it, but in other cases workers were subjected to a harsh crime and a heavy workload. Also, in the south, Blacks were charges minor crimes which led to expensive fees that forced them to work for someone who would pay off their expenses. In convict leasing, sheriffs played a huge role in gathering African American men. Sheriffs would arrest blacks for petty crimes and misdemeanors which caused them to go to jail.
As Dr. Martin Luther King stated in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail," African Americans "waited for more than 340 years for . . . constitutional and God given rights. " African Americans did not get civil rights nor were they considered American citizens even after the Civil War.
My paper is about southern race relations in the mid 1900s. People in the 1900s treated African-Americans with much less respect then they did to white people. Like in the book, which takes place in the mid 1900s, it shows how people did treat blacks; they had them in different areas of town, they had to go to different churches and school, and they also just disrespected blacks. Like in the book with Atticus, there was people who didn’t like the way people were treating blacks, and tried to change it (Martin Luther King Jr.). In 1619, People brought African-American people to the Americas, sold them as slaves, and so began race problems.
Do you think minorities have to work had to gain success? They do; Even though there's laws against inequality of blacks, Mexicans,etc, the minority of the U.S has a harder time becoming successful compared to white people/. The unemployment rate for people of color is 9.5% and compared to the rate of whites(2.2%), we aren't given a very fair shot at getting a job. Recently, some of them are even being killed by cops for reasons that have no proof behind it. For example: The person had a gun or tried to attacked the cop. The circumstances of each of these situations are very suspicious.
Reconstruction caused prejudice and inequality. To elaborate, the creation of the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Codes were both in the time period of reconstruction, which caused chaos and violence throughout the Union. One of the goals of reconstruction was to repair the economy in the South, because it depended on slavery, which was now illegal, due to the thirteenth amendment. The South’s economic system now depended on Sharecropping, which caused former slaves to be in constant debt and was unjust to the black society. The reconstruction time period, was a time of dispute between the Union.
African Americans have always struggled with fitting into the nation but that doesn’t mean we should categorize them as second class citizens. We have many African Americans today that have well structured lives and have good income, but the percentage rates weigh down the success we see in them today. Poverty rates for African Americans (26%) in 2014 were more than two and a half times that of non-Hispanic whites (10%)(Feeding America, 4). African Americans were and are still treated as second class citizens socially, economically, and politically.
The South and the West from 1865-1900 had similar patterns of race relations. In the South the leading issue that the Anglo-Saxon "race" had against the African Americans at the time, was that they felt as if they were superior to other races. In the West the leading issue was the massive stream of immigrants coming from all aspects of the world, and country. Immigrants from Canada to the north, and all the way from Mexico to the south. Lets not forget about the Chinese, and Europeans that flooded the West as well.
Around the 19th century this was a period of time which basically the start of the modern civilization occurred. This period of advancement came with a lot of issues with the civilization that has not yet matured to understand modern thoughts such as anti-racism and civil right and this will be discussed. The emergence of racialized thinking during the enlightenment era, the racialized thinking practice in nineteenth century European and US colonies, as well as the rise of racial and biological nationalism in early twentieth century Europe will be discussed. The era of the enlightenment introduced numerous new concepts and more modernized thought to society.
Eyes on the Prize The ultimate goal was to be treated as an equal among Caucasians. They did not want to be seen by their color, but as an equal human being. One reason this couldn’t happen is because of Jim Crow Laws.
Between 1885 and 1915, racism was rampant in America. White supremacy was the popular view of the time, and African-Americans were deemed ignorant and inferior. This dark era of American history was oppressive for the poor, uneducated Africans attempting to peacefully coexist and recover from their prior years of slavery. However, many issues during this time proved to be substantial roadblocks on the way to racial equality. Relations between the Africans and Caucasians were incredibly negative; blacks were victims of constant discrimination and abuse.
The Great Depression The Great Depression was from 1929 to 1939 and was an extremely long and in fact the longest economic plumet ever in history. It started when the stock market crashed in the United States in October 1929. This caused a domino affect on Wall street and when they got word of the stock market crash, it drove away millions of investors. Then over the years, the situation did not get any better.
The author, David Smith, discusses the topic of racial issues from the 19th century. During this time period, even abolitionists treated black people as lesser people than themselves. Smith describes how this book displays the discrimination of black people, and how even when slaves gain freedom, society does not allow them to feel entirely “free.” He also defines the term race as a term one uses to undermine a different group of people. In the 1800s, many saw black people as inadequate and simpleminded, Twain introduces Jim as a sympathetic and caring man.
Life for black women was not much better, even if they were sheltered inside the homes of their employers. Black women who worked as