PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN AMERICANS 4
Running head: PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN AMERICANS 1
Perspectives on African Americans
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Perspectives on African Americans
The 13th amendment was proposed in the year 1864, and it was ratified later in the year 1865, this is the amendment that abolished slavery together with involuntary servitude, except for those who were held captive because of crime (Maddex Jr, 2018). In the year 1866, the 14th amendment was proposed and ratified after two years in 1868; this amendment addressed the rights of all citizens regardless of their race and skin color. The 15th amendment that was against discrimination in voting rights based on racism and skin color was proposed in the year1869, and it was ratified in the year 1870.
Convict leasing, this is a system that was practiced in the southern parts of the USA; it was dealing with penal labor. On the other hand, Peonage is a system that was used by colonial masters, whereby their workers used to pay back their debts through working. In sharecropping, landowners used to allow their tenants to use the land, but whatever, that was to be produced from the area was to be shared equally. Lastly, vagrancy is a condition that was given to a man who had no home and used to wander from one place to the other; this person had no regular job. Washington and Du Bois were both Africans who were leaders in America; they both fought for social justice, education as well as the civil rights for all the slaves (DuBois, 2017). Their only difference was that Washington was coming from a plantation where he was a slave while Du Bois was coming from a free home.
On the other hand, the strategies of Martin L. King, Jr. and Malcolm X different were entirely different because Martin Luther King JR had a degree despite coming from the South where he was a slave on the other hand, Malcolm X despite the fact he was coming from a free state in Massachusetts he did not have a degree. Oprah Winfrey, on the other hand, was born in a low-income family in Mississippi. Even though she was molested at a tender age, she later got a job as a radio presenter while still at high school. All these cases suggest that always-positive cases will win their way while the negative examples will lose.
References
DuBois, W. E. B. (2017). Dusk of dawn!: An essay toward an autobiography of race concept. Routledge.
Maddex Jr, J. P. (2018). The Virginia Conservatives, 1867-1879: A Study in Reconstruction Politics. UNC Press Books.