How have Africa-Americans worked to end segregation, discrimination and isolation to attain equality and civil rights?

Abstract

African Americans have worked very hard to get equal rights and to end unfairness against them in the United States of America. Hence, this research paper will discuss how African Americans worked to end slavery, segregation, discrimination, freedom, and isolation. Moreover, this paper will also discuss what brought about the civil rights implementation, how it was executed together with its leaders, and how African Americans prevailed over the struggle and disgrace as an African American.

How have Africa-Americans worked to end segregation, discrimination and isolation to attain equality and civil rights?

Introduction

For years, African Americans played a leading considerable position in the history of United States. They fought courageously to end segregation, isolation and discrimination and to become equal citizens of the country (Currie, 1980). They have struggled to obstruct ethnic discrimination, and attain their civil rights and equal opportunity since slavery in the 16th century. There have been innumerable warriors, who have battled and loss their lives for African Americans to have the similar rights as others (Foner, 1988).

Thesis Statement

More than any other group residing in the United States, the African Americans have been at the center of civil struggles all through the history of United States.

Discussion

Provided that the slaves struggled to end isolation, discrimination, and segregation as early as the 16th century (Foner, 1988); which explains how prolonged the fight was, and persists to be. The prejudice and unfairness with African Americans in point of fact began with the transportation of the first slaves to the new colonies. These African slaves were brought in the New World by the European traders in the 1600s to work on large tobacco and cotton farms in the South. The slaves did not get any sort of wages for their work from their White masters and their living conditions were also worst. However, the economy of the South was counting on these slaves.

Slave work was extremely hard. Majority of women cleaned the house, cooked and looked after the kids of their white bosses. Men were working as masons or carpenters (Currie, 1980). However, majority of them were farm laborers who used to plant and harvest crops. Here it is important to note that all Blacks living in United States at that time were not slaves. The African Americans who were “Free” resided and worked in major cities of the country however they had a handful of rights. For instance, expressing political point of views, carrying weapons and gathering with white populace was outlawed. The American population living in the northern states believed that slavery must be banned in an independent country and with the passage of time more and more inhabitants joined in the struggle to bring slavery to an end. These abolitionists aided slaves run away to the North via secret ways. This system was known as the “Underground Railway” (Hine, Hine & Harrold, 2000).

Abraham Lincoln, in the year 1860 was elected as the president of the United ...