From Slavery to Presidency

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From Slavery to Presidency

The struggle of the Afro-Americans



I became interested in this topic after I had noticednumerous problems of the democratic system, a systemthat should guarantee the unalienable rights of life,

liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In this paper I decided to offer an insight view uponthe struggle of the African Americans over the slaverysystem that America had to deal with more than 200

years .



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Slavery is a practice in which people own other

people. A slave is the property of his or her owner and

works without pay.The African slaves were brought to America

between 1619 and 1808, in the North America, in the

founding colonies. This common practice soon

generated the system of slavery.





The differences between North and South were

obvious in the nineteenth century . One overriding

issue exacerbated the regional and economicdifferences between the North and the South: slavery.

The South became solidly united behind the

institution of slavery as new economic factors made

slavery far more profitable than it had been before1790.



Slaves picking cotton



Black family



The issue of slavery eroded relations between theNorth and the South from the first days of Americanindependence until the election of Abraham Lincoln,

who opposed slavery calling it „monstrous injustice”.At the end of the American Civil War was

adopted Emancipation Proclamation. ThisProclamation declared that from January 1, 1863, allslaves in the rebellious states “thenceforward andforever free”.



The Emancipation Declaration was a historic

political step but shamefully, the meaning of the law

would be ignored for nearly another century. In thelast half of the nineteenth century America was not

ready to accept blacks as equals, especially in the

Southern sates, so whites formed a common front

against blacks to remove their political rights. As afact, a series of laws called Black Codes or “Jim

Crow”, practically limited the rights of blacks.



President Abraham Lincoln



After decades of silently enduring second-class

citizenship and dissatisfied with the absence of racial

equality, Blacks began to agitate for a new restorationof civil rights. In the beginning of the twentieth

century appeared an organization called National

Association for the Advancement of Colored People

(NAACP) which declared itself for equal educationalopportunities and complete enfranchisement of black

Americans.



Many black intellectuals fought for establishing

equality for blacks in voting, civil rights, housing

and education (Brown v. the Board of Education

case) and they campaigned against public and

private discrimination. (The Montgomery Bus

Boycott, The Sit-in movement, Birmingham-

Alabama, The March on Washington).



Rosa Parks-The

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Harriet Tubman- The

Underground Railroad



Martin Luther King Junior started to assume alarger role in the struggle for black civil rights bybeing part of the Southern Christian Leadership

Conference (SCLC). The SCLC launched “Crusade for Citizenship,” a voter registration effort. In 1964,in recognition of his work and leadership, King wasawarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.

Tragically, on April 4, 1968, he was assassinated by asniper as he stood on a balcony in Memphis,Tennessee. As a result of his efforts, America hasmoved boldly toward the vision of society where all

people are equal in the in the eyes of the law, nomatter the colour of their skin.



Martin Luther King Junior



The triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement were

a step forward for the American’s democracy andsociety. After 43 years since The Civil Rights

Movement, Barack Obama, the son of a black man

from Kenya and white woman from Kansas, was

elected the 44th President of United States of America.



Barack Obama- 5th of November 2008



Oprah Winfrey-TV

presenter

Tiger Woods- golf

player

Whitney Houston-

singer

Famous black people



Condoleezza Rice-

US Secretary of State

Morgan Freeman- actor

Luis Armstrong- singer



Professor (coordinator): Crăciun Ana-Cristina

Student: Lascu Teodora-Corina

Class a XII-a

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