African Americans Working Hard to Make It.

African Americans have been working hard since the slavery days, to end segregation, discrimination, and isolation. Many civil rights leaders such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Ruby Bridges, John Brown, Fredrick Douglas, Nat Turner, Linda Brown, and many more to come. They have worked together so that blacks can have the same things and rights as whites have. I will like to give a little insist on what segregation, discrimination, and isolation is. Segregation is the practice of keeping ethnic, racial, religious, or gender groups separate, especially by enforcing the use of separate schools, transportation, housing, and other facilities, which usually lead to discriminating against other minority groups. Isolation is defined as the process of separating somebody or something from others, or it could be the fact of being alone and separated from others. Thirdly discrimination is defined as unfair treatment of one person or group, usually because of prejudice about race, ethnicity, age, religion, or gender.

Segregation played a part in the production of slaves being freed. Slaves were segregated, because they were believed to be property not people. Once slavery ended slaves were free, and this is when all these problems began, because they were not given rights when they were freed. So many slaves tried to become equal, but they were rejected because of their color. Over the years more many whites were mad about letting blacks eat, drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same diner, use the bathroom, attend the same schools and churches as blacks. Segregation was not politically noticed until the Plessey versus Ferguson case.

African-Americans have been fighting to end racial discrimination and attain equality and their due civil rights ever since slavery began here in the United States. Slavery started many years before the first slaves came to the United States in the year 1619. Dutch and Portuguese explorers started slavery by kidnapping...