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It initially started with slavery. Farm machinery didn't exist and wealthy plantation owners who raised cash crops like tobacco and cotton looked for cheap labor. Racist ideas such as people from Africa being more animal than human were prevalent in those days. Slave traders and owners dehumanized the slaves to justify what they did to them. Then once slavery was abolished, the racist beliefs which were used to justify slavery remained.
Slaves were kept ignorant so they would not be able to survive without their masters. There were even laws against slaves and even free African-Americans getting an education. That ignorance, which the slave owners valued, was later used to justify discrimination. Rather than blame the lack of education for the ignorance, the racists blamed the race.
Then there were the pressures of a poor economy. When the slaves were freed, the economy was bad. So nobody really welcomed new people to the workforce. So that could have led to some of the discriminatory laws. People without education were not welcomed into the workforce much, and there was already competition for what jobs remained.
Then there were the political pressures. The most noted hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, was created because of political pressures. In the days right after slavery, there was a fear of so many of the freedmen becoming Republicans, which were the more liberal political party in that day. So some of the Conservative Democrats started the KKK to marginalize people of color and weaken their political power. The KKK still exists, but in a weak and fractured form.
Some of the later hate may have been related to another phenomenon, and that was the conversion of the political parties. When the American Communist Party disbanded, its members took over the Democrat Party. Then many of the Conservatives fled to the Republican Party. Communist and/or socialist values were attractive to African Americans in those days. This put targets on their backs as there were government programs, both overt and covert, designed to drive out Communism. So to keep liberal, communist, or socialist influences away from the polls, there were all the discriminatory voting laws. There was violence as well.
There are many more things that can be said as to the reasons, but if we must boil it down, it was all due to greed, fear, hate, assumed inferiority, and lies.
the African-American people were treated terribly because down south never liked them and even after the civil war and the laws of segregation were passed some people still don't like African-Americans oh also they do get treated differently in some parts of the us. There are still some groups of people hunting down African American people because of their race.
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Even after they were no longer slaves the weren't treeted as humans.
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What movement united African Americans with groups of people from Africa?
Pan-Africanism was the movement that united African Americans with groups of people from Africa.
Who were some people involved in slavery?
African Americans
What tactics use to intimidate African-Americans and whites who supported African-Americans?
There were many horrible tactics used to intimidate African Americans and the non-African Americans who supported them. There were fiery crosses burned in yards, bricks thrown through windows, and people beaten.
When were African Americans able to play sports with whites?
african americans were able to play sports with caucasion people in the 1950s,.
Are African Americans and Black Americans the same?
yes. it just depends on peoples preference. Some people do not like to be called black and some people do not like to be called African American. But I think it is proper to say African American
How American are African Americans?
African Americans are treated equally in the eyes of the law, but differently by different people. Some people are nice and treat them as if they are humans, while other people disrespect them.
How are African-Americans treated in Africa?
most of the people in Africa are African Americans....I think
Who were the people excluded from all men were treated equal?
The african- americans.
How were the black people treated in the gold-rush?
The African Americans were treated badly but if they had gold they would they them very nice.
How were African Americans decided by the revolutionary war?
They were decided my how useful they were. Like what they can do. They weren't treated well (all of them). After, slavery was ended or in the process of ending in different states. African Americans then became regular people and were not biased anymore, like now.
What did free and enslaved African Americans have in common?
They were both treated badly, and people were still racist towards them.
Why were slaves African-Americans?
slaves were African Americans because white people thought other colored people were different from them and segregation is another reason
How were African Americans treated in restaurants?
They are not treated well because they where to much perfoume to restaurants they make everybody sick don't where perfoume and people will like you
Even after the declaration of independence was signed which American people were refused their freedom?
African Americans they were still treated as slaves
What people were effected by Jim Crow?
another group that jim crow treated wrong were mexicans.
Why did people pick white people to be treated good but not black people?
Because african americans were succluded to africa and the white did not go there much sooo when they did finnally find them they thought they were monkeys (which they are!!)and treated them as slaves and animals
What was the European attitude toward blacks in the eighteenth century?
In the 18th Century, African Americans were considered lesser people or not people at all. The African Americans of this time were usually treated as property and worked like slaves.
