Since the beginning of the United States to the 1960s’s there’s were many barriers that were broken towards racial equality. During this era there was many people being discriminated because of their color of their skin. Also, African Americans didn’t have same rights nor were citizens. Society have come a long way and many barriers were broken that had positive and negative impacts. With barriers being broken it help pave the road for future generations.
As stated in the introduction there was many barriers to overcome for racial equality. The end of slavery was the beginning of a long struggle for breaking barriers towards racial equality. One barrier was that people of color aren’t American citizens and didn’t have the same rights as others. For example, with the 14th Amendment and 15th Amendments are one of the some the breaking point. In this article off online it states,” Ratified July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons ‘born or naturalized in the United States,’ including former enslaved persons, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,” extending the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states.”
This explains how the 14th amendment granted citizenship rights to all persons either born or naturalized in the U.S. even former slaves with the equal protection under the laws backing them up. As for the 15th amendment it proclaims,” Ratified February 3, 1870, the amendment prohibited states from disenfranchising voters “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” In which explains how it doesn’t allow states to discourage or restrict people on voting no matter their race, color and if they were previously slaves themselves. With these two amendments in motion it was breaking the barrier that not all people are the same. Thus, giving hope to everyone that are against racial inequality.
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During the end of slavery, Sam Crow, and the Civil Rights era there was many times were many African American and other people of color who were victims of discrimination. Until on August 28th, 1963 when Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his speech, I Have a Dream. In his speech he stated that,” But one hundred years later (All right), the Negro still is not free. (My Lord, Yeah) One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” Which helped people open their eyes up that although slavery is gone, African Americans are still aren’t free and still face many problems such as discrimination and segregation. Also, later in his speech he says,” I have a dream (Mhm) that one day (Yes) this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed (Hah): “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”” In this comment, he believes that one day everyone will look past the lies they were taught and see that everyone is the color of their skin. MLK I Have a Dream speech was a turning point of the civil rights movement, since it helped people to have a speak up and protest discrimination and segregation. Then nearly a year later President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, thus eliminating discrimination and segregation in the United States. This was a major stepping point towards racial equality.
As the civil right movement came to the end for breaking the barriers to racial equality there many impacts both for the good and bad. Although it’s been years since us as a whole society had broken the barriers towards racial equality. One impact is that there’s still educational differences for people of color. In the article, Editorial: Education is the Civil Right by David Johns and Andrene Jones-Castro it stated,” Black K-12 students are 3.8 times as likely to receive one or more out-of-school suspensions as compared to white students in the same grade” which shows a slightly negative impact that African Americans have a higher rate of getting more in trouble. One positive outcome is that the article went more in depth on how diversity is more common in schools and everyday life in which encourage people to work together as a community. For example,” Today, school integration has never been more important. “Like math and reading, like science and social studies, and the arts, diversity is no longer a luxury,” said Secretary King addressing the National PTA.” This explains how education and diversity is common now. Now that the barriers for racial equality were broken, they had a lot of positive and negative impacts.
For years America had fought barriers towards racial equality, there was many negative and positive impact. Also, how it took years for segregation and discrimination to end. Even African American’s & other people of color to have the same rights and citizenship as other individuals. We as a whole society still have barriers to break so future generations can be all equal.
References
- Johns, David, and Andrene Jones-Castro. “Editorial: Education Is the Civil Right.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 14 July 2016, www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/editorial-education-civil-right-n606356.
- “Landmark Legislation: Thirteenth, Fourteenth, & Fifteenth Amendments.” U.S. Senate: Landmark Legislation: Thirteenth, Fourteenth, & Fifteenth Amendments, 11 Feb. 2020, www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/CivilWarAmendments.htm.
- “‘I Have a Dream,’ Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, 25 Jan. 2019, kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/i-have-dream-address-delivered-march-washington-jobs-and-freedom.
- “Breaking Barriers to Racial Equality.” U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, www.visitthecapitol.gov/breaking-barriers-racial-equality.
