AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

African American History



African American History

Introduction

The movements in United States that were aimed at declaring the racial discrimination against African Americans as illegal referred as African-American Civil Right Movements. These movements were also directed towards restoration of the voting rights in the Southern states. During the World War all, there was continuity in the older patterns of racial discrimination. During the 1940-43 eras, there were 17 executions in the U.S. and a number of serious urban, ethnic insurrections were evident in 1943. The worst racial riot observed in the Detroit. On the other hand, war was also a turning point in race relations. The leaders of the Civil Rights Movement continued to pursue the campaign of “Double V”, which aimed at fighting abroad against the enemies of America and for victory in America against the racial discrimination. The Civil Rights Movement achieved the pivotal victory when the racial discrimination in the defense sector declared illegal by FDR. The war increased the pace of African-Americans movement from the rural South to the urban North that resulted in enhanced financial and academic opportunities for many people. (Riches, 2004)

Discussion

Supreme Court was formed after the long period control of the Democrats over the White House and Senate. Supreme Court was more open to the racial equality demands. During 1950s, courts proved to be the major federal collaborator of the Civil Rights Movement. In response to the cases brought by the NAACP, a series of judgments were issued by the Supreme Court. These judgments constricted the capacity of Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that separate law schools for whites and blacks would not be equal. The reason the ruling was that there would be a situation of inaccessibility for the black students to the standings, faculty, and graduate associations of the white schools. In basic words, there were certain insubstantial elements that had to be considered regarding equality under the law.

Although World War II was fought by racially segregated regiments, President Harry Truman signed an executive order in 1948 that desegregated the armed forces. Perhaps more than any other single presidential act, Truman's signature prepared the way for the many challenges mounted against segregation in the following decade. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, in which the Supreme Court unanimously swept away the proper segregation of public education, was built on decades of careful judicial work by the NAACP. The strategy of ...