The article, \"The Negro\'s Civil War in Tennessee, 1861-1865\" by Bobby L. Lovett, was published in \"The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 61, No. 1\" (Jan. 1976). In the article, Lovett writes about the contributions of black Tennesseans during the Civil War in obtaining their freedom - under some o...

War Without Mercy Race played a dominant role in World War II for a variety of reasons. Historically, power relationships emerge between the dominant and thedomineered. This has occurred throughout history, from slavery in Romantimes to slavery in our own South. It seems there is always a vic...

In 1865, after the Civil War, the United States became a united and powerful nation with a strong national government. Andrew Johnson set policies which were different for black and white people. According to Walter L. Fleming in "The Mississippi Black Code," laws were passed after the Civil ...

Dear Natalie, I have past trough hell blindfolded and survived the war on Fort Wagner in July 1864. All the challenges given to me were arduous and brutal. Nothing compares to this, put every time I think about you it makes it go away. When I think about you memories reminisce in my head. As you kno...

Life for Blacks after the Civil WarLife for African Americans after the Civil War was filled with joy and fear. As being former slaves, some had learned to expect hostility from white people and they did not presume it would instantly disappear. Even though the slaves were free, it was not a just fr...

GloryAmerica's Civil War was one of the most important wars in the History in the United States. In this war about 700,000 Americans were killed and nearly 37,000 of these casualties were of men of the African American descent. The movie Glory is one of the best-know...

Brothers In Arms One of the greatest wars ever fought in our time is World War II; an ideal principle for human's freedom and equality. At a great scale, many men lost their lives and are recorded in many history books. From American to British and even Russian soldiers sacrifice their l...

Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War, begins by briefly looking at how previous wars such as the American Revolution, WWI, WWII, and the Korean War dealt with race relations in comparison to the Vietnam War. Earlier wars had a segregated system that limited the contact betw...

Life in the camp was grueling and painful it was not a day at the park like I thought. We sleep in tents out side in the forest and we had to share them with other soldiers. I shared my tent with three other men their names were Trip, Thomas, and John Rawlins. We eat what I called glue in a plate it...

Glory is one of the greatest films relating to the Civil War. The Civil War like any war was a dramatic period of time. Thousands of people died defending what they thought was right, including the slaves, which in my opinion, had more reasons to fight than anyone else. The former slaves in the 54t...

These are a few documents that describe a small portion of history that we as a people use to look into the past to get a glimpse of what experience's people of that time period had to experience and some of the trials and tribulation that people had to endure. "Black Codes enacted in t...

The political, social and economic conditions after the Civil War defined the goals of Reconstruction. At this time, Congress was divided politically on issues that grew out of the Civil War: readmitting southern states to the Union, rebuilding the south, black equality and deciding who would ...

Dan McDadeNovember 12, 2001"Glory", the excellent war film about the first black regime, showed how a group of black men who first found bitterness between each other, rose above it and became one to form a group of black men that marched with pride not animosity. When dealing with a great film tha...

The Army in the West In May of 1865, Congress faced a problem with the war ending and men being sent home. Where were they going to find men to replace the volunteer units? Another problem that the army faced was keeping the hostile Indians under control and learning how to adapt to their style o...

After the civil war, there were many problems left to be solved. Thousands of land and many transportation means were destroyed, millions of soldiers diminished, the Southern economy was ruined, and freed blacks who have no idea what to do with their freedom were the results as well as the problems...

Which is better: a controlled environment or a free one? For many centuries people have fought for control like the Romans or the Germans while others have fought for freedom like Gandhi or Malcolm X. While all of these examples have been great and famous I believe that a free environment is better ...

Imagine being a Black Man, a Black Male Child, a Black Woman, a Black Female Child, a White Man, a White Male Child, a White Woman, and a White Female Child - all bearing witness to a lynching. Witnessing a man being killed viciously brings different thoughts and emotions of to whoever sees it....

The Civil Rights Movement gave African-Americans many rights that would change their lives forever. Without the Civil Rights Movement, our world is significantly different today because African Americans would still be segregated from the white world. Before the 1950s, African Americans held very f...

Ceremony The protagonist of the story, Tayo, is struggling to keep balance in his life. He has difficulty maintaining a consciousness of what is dream and what is memory. He is torn by feelings of divided loyalty due to his mixed parentage and the loss of his "brother" and friends. In order to po...

Reconstruction EssayReconstruction was the period of 'repair' after the civil war. It was to repair the North and South, politically, socially, and economically. It was also to rejoin the South back into the union, as it had succeeded during the civil war. President Lincoln wanted to let the South c...

In Beloved, Toni Morrison sets the novel after the end of the civil war where slaves were freed by Emancipation. There are several power relationships that Morrison links together to show the aftermath of the civil war from the black point of view. The key relationships Morrison focuses on are maste...

Throughout history, it has not been unusual to find people trying to alter their body to what the society has shown as being the in thing. A somewhat outrageous fashion for African Americans during World War Two was using bleach to lighten ones dark skin. The main source of where they got the idea w...

I will admit that I am not much for reading. I will also admit after reading the first chapter in this book that I felt sick to my stomach, literally. That I feared reading the rest of the book knowing that this really happened and that people could actually do this to one another. Although th...

The Reconstruction after the Civil War consisted of failures as well as successes. Despite having the intentions of positively affecting political and constitutional issues, yet failing to do so, the National Government from 1865-1877 successfully integrated many positive social changes. The Nation...

In the times of slavery, there were two popular stereotypes of a black female – the loyal mammy and the promiscuous temptress. The former represented an "adamantine, kind, unattractive, and sexless woman" and it justified "abusive treatment of black women on the grounds that th...