After the Civil War was over, many African Americans had a number of different issues they had to over come.
Your Assignment: Name three ways African Americans responded to segregation and to the loss of civil and political rights.
Due: Sunday 11/2/08 by 11:59 p.m.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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Many of the former slaves had to first rebuild life in the south. The union used up most resources and spoiled others in order to force south to submit. These conditions were left for the south to clean up after the war was over. Reconstruction all in itself was a challenge for the african americans. Though they were free they had restrictions which went against key amendments that were given to them. Restrictions included that of now onwership of arms, curfews, and no meeting or gathering could be held unless a white was present.
ReplyDeleteThey couldn't could a meeting with out a white male present. They couldn't travel with out a permit. And they had to be off the streets at certain times.
ReplyDeleteConfronted by segregation and denied basic political and civil rights, some African Americans left theSouth for the Midwest or moved to northern cities. Most, however, stayed in the South, where their ancestors had liveed for generations. To improve their lives, African Americans formed mutual aid societies, started businesses, strengthened churches, and built schools.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, African Americans built their own institutions, and they adopted several approaches to fighting discrimination. Protests were a major form. Many people, such as Ida Wells, disagreed with Washington's position that African Americans should concentrate soley on economic advancement.
Three ways African Americans responded to segregation and the loss of civil and political rights, were one: African Americans just simply left the south and headed to the midwest or more northern cities. Two: They formed mutual aid societies, started busniesses, strengthened churches and built schools. Three: They started to concentrate on economic advancements which was believed to be the key to political and social equality. Some believed they should protest, others thougth protesting would only make things worse.
ReplyDeleteMost African Americans could not find factory work at any wage. Many industrial workers were forced to buy goods on credit from the company store and to live in ramshackle company houses. Soon they found themselves locked in a cycle of debt. African Americans started to look much in to the Old South and they started loosing all their right. So, they sued for equal treatment under the Civil Rights Act of 1875, but the Supreme court refused to overturn the Jim Crow laws. So in 1896, the decision of Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that the "seperate but equal" facilities did not violate the Fourteenth Amendement.
ReplyDeleteWhen Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man forty years ago on December 1, 1955, she was tired and weary from a long day of work. At least that's how the event has been retold countless times and recorded in our history books. But, there's a misconception here that does not do justice to the woman whose act of courage began turning the wheels of the civil rights movement on that fateful day. Another way the black respomded was MLK's speech
ReplyDeleteBecause many African Americans were segregated and denied basic political and civil rights, some left the South for the Midwest or moved to more Northern cities. A lot of them stayed in the South, due to the fact that’s where their ancestors lived for generations. To improve their lives, they formed mutual aide societies, started businesses, and made schools.
ReplyDeleteBooker T. Washington, a former slave who founded Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute and Ida Wells-Barnett, a teacher and a journalist, offered different answers to the discriminations. Washington thought that African Americans should concentrate on economic advancement. Which would strengthen their economic independence. He thought that blacks should be trained on trading and different professions to better their knowledge and said not to rebel against white because it would only increase their discrimination ideas.
Ida Wells was a smart woman who chose to protest against discrimination and segregated schools. She was more violent and wrote angry editorials against lynching because three of her friends had been lynched.
Those were just some of the ways that African Americans responded to segregation after the Civil War.
they didnt realy reaspond because there was no place for them to go once they got freed from the slave owners. they didnt know their rights as people in our constitution so they didnt know they were not gettign the rigths they deserved.
ReplyDeleteSome African Americans left the South for the Midwest or moved to northern cities. The ones that stayed though formed mutual societies, started businesses, strengthened churches, and built schools. One person, Booker T. Washington, urged blacks to seek practical training in trades and professions. He then discouraged them from protesting against discrimination. Many African American leaders disagreed with him and argued that blacks should protest unfair treatment. One person named Ida Wells encouraged this. She expressed her opinion through writing in her newspaper. She wrote about lynching which caused angry whites to burn down her newspaper office.
ReplyDeleteAfter the civil war life was very tough for the African Americans. They couldn't find any work not even in factories for any wage. The new south was starting to look like the old south, they had few economic opportunities and were ultimately stripped of most of their rights. They were stipped of their right to vote by the tax put on the voting polls. So one way the african americans responded was by just leaving the south and moving to the midwest. They aslo formed mutual aids, started businesses, streangthened churches, and built schools. Two influential people were Booker T Washington adn Ida Wells Bernett and they thought that African Americans should focus on economic advancement. All these ways were the way the blacks responded and how they dealt with the hard times people put on them.
ReplyDeleteThe New South was starting to look very much like the Old South. Just this time, they weren't salves anymore, they were seperated from whites. Some blacks moved to nothern cities and the Midwest, but most of them stayed and faced the everyday segregation. Some responded by protesting in many different ways e.g. by writing articles, some thought they should better concentrate on economic advancement.
ReplyDeleteReconstruction, nothing was more powerful than the former slaves desperate efforts to find their lost families. They originated in the slave codes, which defined slaves as property. In some states these codes included vagrancy laws that targeted unemployed blacks, apprentice laws that made black orphans and dependents available for hire to whites, and commercial laws that excluded blacks from certain trades and businesses and restricted their ownership of property.But the main purpose of the legislation was to stabilize the black workforce by compelling African Americans to work and by limiting their economic options.
ReplyDeleteOne way African-Americans responded to the segregation and loss of civil rights was by suing for unequal treatment under the Civil Rights Act of 1875 after states passed laws designed to enforce segregation of race. The first law that was passed was the Jim Crow laws which required separate railroad cars for blacks and whites. By 1890’s all southern states had legalized this law.
ReplyDeleteAnother way they responded to this loss was by organizing their own places. They formed mutual aid societies, started businesses, strengthened their own churches, and built schools. The key question though for African- American leaders was how to fight discrimination. So blacks urged to strengthen their economic independence so they didn’t have to depend on whites.
African Americans built their own institutions, and they adopted several approaches to fighting discrimination. Many African- Americans thought that blacks should protest unfair treatment. One person who led this was Ida Wells-Barnett. She vowed to put a stop to lynching and wrote a fiery editorial on the subject. Angry whites responded by destroying the newspaper office. Wells then left the South and went to New York where she continued her crusade against lynching.
Three ways that African Americans responded to the segregation directed towards them by the White Americans was the held boycotts, sit-ins, and marches. Some of the bigger events were the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Greensboro sit-in.
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