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Here is a paper on Historical Report on Race Historical Report on Race Nigel Faison ETH/125- Cultural conversion June 24, 2012 Tiff Archie Axia College of the University Phoenix Historical Report on Race Dear, trick Doe I am writing you this letter to let you get along some of the struggles of African Americans throughout history. It is my sincere hope, that this helps you to understand the tribe of my tend better furthermore, I hope that it answers any questions that you may have had. Since we be friends, I just wanted to give you some insight into my culture.My people were brought to this country in 1619, to work for white people, and by 1661, Virginia had enacted the very beginning(a) slave law. By 1776, the year the United States declared its independence from great Britain, slavery was legitimate in every state, and African Americans labored as slaves throughout the North as well as the South. ( mixer Probelms, Ch. 3, p. 65). From the beginning, my people were be subj ected to a life of servitude. During the slave trade African American families were routinely split up for profit.Can you imagine the effect that this had on the people, to have their families lacerated apart? African Americans had to do whatever they were told to do by their so called masters and if they did non as history tells us, they were whipped, beaten, and even hanged. It was said that African Americans were not really people. (Social Problems, Ch. 3, p. 65). This is how a society that was supposed to be school viewed other human beings. Later, after slavery ended, African Americans continued to plaque prejudice and discrimination in their everyday lives.African Americans were being denied their basic courteous rights and institutional discrimination was the norm. African Americans were not allowed to go to school with whites, fox from the same water fountains, stay at the same hotels, eat at the same restaurants, vote, and had to give up their seat to white people on the bus. Proof of this can be seen in a ruling of the unconditional Court of the United States. In the 1857 Dred Scott case, the U. S. Supreme Court stated that slaves were not citizens entitled to the rights and protections of U. S. law. This was backed up by segregation and Jim Crow laws. Social Problems, Ch. 3, p. 65). Some of the political, social, and cultural issues and concerns throughout American history for African Americans were causeing our freedom, polished rights, and equality for our people. Our people had been through so much and the fight to gain these things would take years, even today, the issue of equality seems to still not be settled as reflected in the wages compensable to African Americans. The normal pay of White men is $52,273, for woman it is $40,219. The median pay of foreboding(a) men is $40,219, for woman it is $32,829.In addition, it is said that the level of education has nothing to do with the gap, because even at the highest levels it is stil l present. (Racial and Ethnic Groups, Ch. 3, p. 67). Why are we paid so much less for performing the same jobs? I gestate that discrimination has to be playing a role here, would you agree? John, as I menti aned earlier slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow laws were enacted against African Americans. These laws were established to deny us of our civil rights and allowed for legal discrimination against African Americans.Organizations or groups that fought against these laws were, National knowledge for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the southerly Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating commissioning (SNCC). They fought these laws by having protests, demonstrations, political organizing, and voter registration drives in the civic Rights bowel movement (1950s and 1960s). The results of these actions were laws such as, the Civil Rights Act (1964), Voting Rights Act (1965). http//nationalhuman itiescenter. org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm. htm). What these laws achieved, with one addition, is the following Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting segregation in employment and worldly concern accommodations), the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (banning voting requirements that prevented African Americans from having a political voice), and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (which outlawed discrimination in housing). Together, these laws brought an end to most legal discrimination in public