ethnic studies

             America is a land often depicted for its freedoms and opportunities that one so hopefully desires to experience but when you take away the sugar coated deceptions of our beautiful America you get a life time of hate, endless sacrifices and many obstacles that minorities had to overcome to be accepted as an American. After the Civil War and during World War II their were many minorities that paved the way for others but in my opinion the two most recognized ethnic groups that were able to improve their political, social and economic positions within the United States history were African Americans and Native American people. In this essay I will discuss the Native Americans, African Americans as well as two articles in which, I gained very insightful knowledge from and show how all these works has made our America the home it has become today.
             Over the past hundred years are so, America has shown a great deal of discrimination against African American people. It first started when Africans were taken against their will and put on ships to be sent to America to become slaves for rich Caucasian people. Caucasians gave African Americans little or no rights and had many African Americans doing daily task such as, picking cotton, cooking, cleaning, babysitting, sewing and etc. After a while African American people began to realize that the treatment they were receiving was cruel, usual and violated their freedoms of being human beings. When the Civil War first started around 1939, many African Americans took part in the fight; because they wanted to be free from slavery but to get there they had overcome many hardships to accomplish their goals. After the Civil War everything changed politically, socially and economically. African Americans had the opportunity to become self-employed by owning their own land and running their own farms, instead of their masters plantation. They were also being paid by wages now. Slavery also became il...

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