African American Civil Rights FD
African American Civil Rights: The Sixties, Obama, and the Road Ahead When you think of the United States, you think of the phrase "land of the free."
Americans should all have equal rights, no matter what their race. Whether Americans are Black, White, Asian, or Hispanic, race should not determine the amount of rights you receive. Although America has evolved and made progress, most of the African
Americans living in this country are still being treated poorly. Today, African Americans are able to do all the things they were not allowed to do back in the 1960s and is equal to that of whites. This is the way the United States should stay and the way it should have always been. The current status of civil rights for African
Americans is vastly different from what it used to be. In the 1960s, African Americans were not allowed to use the same facilities as white people, were not given the right to vote, and were slaves. In Raymond Arsenault 's Freedom Riders, he states "that racial segregation on trains, buses, and in public waiting rooms must end," (2011, p. 184). It is not fair that the reason African Americans are treated so unjustly is because of the color of their skin. The services and facilities that was retained specifically for African
Americans were always of lower quality than retained for Whites. African Americans deal with oppression in a variety of ways due to the unfortunate conditions they have faced. For example, In Three Ways of Oppression,
Martin Luther King says people who are abused face it three contrasting ways, "One way is acquiescence: the oppressed resign themselves to their doom. The second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. The third way open to oppressed people in their quest for freedom is the way of nonviolent resistance." (1958, p. 1,2). As African Americans continue to bear hardships of being denied their freedom, they start to give
Americans should all have equal rights, no matter what their race. Whether Americans are Black, White, Asian, or Hispanic, race should not determine the amount of rights you receive. Although America has evolved and made progress, most of the African
Americans living in this country are still being treated poorly. Today, African Americans are able to do all the things they were not allowed to do back in the 1960s and is equal to that of whites. This is the way the United States should stay and the way it should have always been. The current status of civil rights for African
Americans is vastly different from what it used to be. In the 1960s, African Americans were not allowed to use the same facilities as white people, were not given the right to vote, and were slaves. In Raymond Arsenault 's Freedom Riders, he states "that racial segregation on trains, buses, and in public waiting rooms must end," (2011, p. 184). It is not fair that the reason African Americans are treated so unjustly is because of the color of their skin. The services and facilities that was retained specifically for African
Americans were always of lower quality than retained for Whites. African Americans deal with oppression in a variety of ways due to the unfortunate conditions they have faced. For example, In Three Ways of Oppression,
Martin Luther King says people who are abused face it three contrasting ways, "One way is acquiescence: the oppressed resign themselves to their doom. The second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. The third way open to oppressed people in their quest for freedom is the way of nonviolent resistance." (1958, p. 1,2). As African Americans continue to bear hardships of being denied their freedom, they start to give
References: Alexander, M., (2010, March 9). The New Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press, 2010. Arsenault,R., (2011). Introduction. In Freedom riders. (pp. 3-12). Oxford: Oxford University Press. King, M.L., Jr. (1958). Three ways of meeting oppression. In M. Connely (Ed.). The sundance reader. (pp. 375-378). Boston: Wadsworth, 2009.