Blacks in America
It is no secret that African Americans in the land currently known as the United States have been abused and mistreated for centuries. Some of the most horrific displays of the loss of humanity and respect for life have found their victims in the African American community. Early on in the America's, during the age of colonialism, merchants found it was most profitable to import slaves from Africa, which they could get cheap from feuding tribes, to work of sugar and tobacco plantations. Soon, the islands and the mainland were teeming with African American activity, which was suppressed by the wealthy and powerful landowners. Their culture and heritage was squashed, and replaced by forceful missionaries and preachers with perverted interpretations of Christ's message of understanding and compassion. The African Americans moved on through the slavery issue, which grew to become and epidemic, one that required an immediate and absolute cure. And they therefore turned to politic, and Abraham Lincoln, whose drive and deter
As a result, blacks were forced to move into low income housing (slums) because they were jobless and uneducated. For them to attain jobs, though, they needed employers who were willing to hire them, and after the Civil War, most employers were loathe to hire blacks. Perhaps the most monumental decision for black equality was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1954, in the Brown versus the Board of Education case filed by an ambitious attorney from the south. The lawsuit questioned the validity of the "separate but equal" clause that surrounded the schooling of public schooling of children. It was more than obvious that the white children in the south were receiving the lion's share of the educational funding, and therefore their teacher and facilities were better. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that all schools were to be integrated, signaling an important step for blacks and their cause. Such hate groups as the Ku Klux Klan flared up, and hatred and tensions ran high, and over time blacks began to feel to
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