An End to Segregation
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African-Americans - An End to Segregation and Discrimination
The Fight for Civil Rights
Ed Ferrer
HIS 204: American History Since 1865
Instructor: Laverne Peralta
October 29, 2012
African-Americans - An End to Segregation and Discrimination
The Fight for Civil Rights
From the time that they arrived to the New World, African Americans have gone through a series of adversities. They’ve worked very hard to end slavery, segregation isolation and discrimination for good. Segregation is the practice of keeping ethnic, racial, religious, or gender groups separate, especially by enforcing the use of separate schools, transportation, housing, and other facilities, and usually discriminating against a minority group. Isolation is the process of separating somebody or something from others, or the fact of being alone and separated from others. With the help of prominent leaders, African Americans joined as one in their struggle for freedom, equal rights, segregation and discrimination by forming their own institutions for education, churches and fraternal orders, and finally the Civil Rights Movement.
The establishment and growth of the colonies in the new world saw an increase in production of the tobacco, also known as the “cash crop.” Landowners growing tobacco in the American colonies had originally met their need for forced labor by enslaving a limited number of Natives, and "hiring" many European indentured servants. In exchange for their transportation to cross the Atlantic, the servants committed to work for the landowner for 4 to 7 years, after which they became free. In 1619, the first black indentured servants arrived in Jamestown in the colony of Virginia. They had been captured in Africa and were sold at auction into a period of servitude. Although the first blacks in Virginia were considered and listed as servants, like the white indentured servants brought from Europe, they were viewed as being different from white servants, they...
The Fight for Civil Rights
Ed Ferrer
HIS 204: American History Since 1865
Instructor: Laverne Peralta
October 29, 2012
African-Americans - An End to Segregation and Discrimination
The Fight for Civil Rights
From the time that they arrived to the New World, African Americans have gone through a series of adversities. They’ve worked very hard to end slavery, segregation isolation and discrimination for good. Segregation is the practice of keeping ethnic, racial, religious, or gender groups separate, especially by enforcing the use of separate schools, transportation, housing, and other facilities, and usually discriminating against a minority group. Isolation is the process of separating somebody or something from others, or the fact of being alone and separated from others. With the help of prominent leaders, African Americans joined as one in their struggle for freedom, equal rights, segregation and discrimination by forming their own institutions for education, churches and fraternal orders, and finally the Civil Rights Movement.
The establishment and growth of the colonies in the new world saw an increase in production of the tobacco, also known as the “cash crop.” Landowners growing tobacco in the American colonies had originally met their need for forced labor by enslaving a limited number of Natives, and "hiring" many European indentured servants. In exchange for their transportation to cross the Atlantic, the servants committed to work for the landowner for 4 to 7 years, after which they became free. In 1619, the first black indentured servants arrived in Jamestown in the colony of Virginia. They had been captured in Africa and were sold at auction into a period of servitude. Although the first blacks in Virginia were considered and listed as servants, like the white indentured servants brought from Europe, they were viewed as being different from white servants, they...