African Americans



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Abstract

African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or Black Americans are the residents or citizens of the US who have completed or limited lineage from any of the local populations of Sub-Saharan Africa. The History of African Americans begins in the 16th century by forcing the Africans from the Spanish and the English Colonies to the United States. When United States came into being, black people continued to be enslaved and acted as minorities and many movements were deployed so as to get rid of enslavement and all rights, the curial movements included Harlem Renaissance, Abolitionist Movement, Black Power Movement, Civil Rights Movement etc.

Introduction4

Events4

Harlem Renaissance4

Abolitionist Movement:5

Civil Rights Movement6

Black Power Movement:7

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)8

Freedom Rides8

Conclusion9

Refrences10

African Americans

Introduction

African Americans Background/History is one of the essential and core area of African American Studies. African American History has been lead by the African American struggle for their cultural distinctiveness and freedom. (Dagbovie, P, G, 2007)

It can be said that the African Americans were tortured and slaved and tried allot not to enjoy their rights in United Stated rather than sending these peoples back to Africa. The original primary example is the formation of American colonialization in 1817 by well-known whites with the idea of sending black peoples back to Africa as an alternative to their freedom in the United States. Although their leaders did think that initially slaves might be purchased for the purpose of colonialization, the important purpose of this nation was the return of the free Negroes to Africa, but the black idea apart and opposed it. They also argued that black peoples were Americans by birth and have the citizenship and equality in this country (Smith, R, C, 2003).

Colonialization supported by all of the early American presidents and later by Abraham Lincoln and due to this many of the blacks settled in a colony in West Africa, which in 1847 became the independent Republic of Liberian. At the end these efforts of the nation failed because blacks preferred to get freedom in their own Country of birth which led to many movements and events for the purpose of Freedom in all aspects (Smith, R, C, 2003).

Events

Harlem Renaissance

In the decades of the 1920s and 1930s in the city of New York City known as Harlem, there build a different awakening of mind sets and spirits, of race consciousness and freedom advancement. This announcement of African-American independence became known alternatively as the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro movement. It was a creative and sociocultural moving that occurred in the African-American society as a result of the migration of vast numbers of blacks that were living in rural South made their direction to the urban areas of the North and Mid West, during this time in Harlem there was the emergence of new concepts in political theory; numerous groundbreaking artistic developments in theatre, music, literature, and visual arts; and an induction of civil rights organizations, group unions and other associations (West, S, L, ...