Question

PLEASE HELP ON CIVIL RIGHTS ESSAY I WILL GIVE ALL MY POINTS!!! select two different groups that have faced discrimination in American history. For each group describe examples of three discrimination it faced as well as actions taken by the government and whether those actions protected or limited the rights of the group

Answer 1

Blacks and women have both faced discrimination in america. Three examples for blacks would be that they were limited in employment, housing, and political say. Three examples for women would not being able to own land, not being able to hold certain jobs, and not being able to vote. The government didn't do much about this, they were more concerned on other things. Later on, amendments were passed to limit bias and discrimiation against these minorities.

Answer 2

1. African Americans faced discrimination throughout most of the 20th century (1900s). African Americans faced many different types of hardships including being a slave, being discriminated in their own country, and having been segregated. (those are the three examples). Some laws/actions taken by the government were the Jim Crow laws (which were racial segregation laws between 1876 and 1965). Another law or action was in 1870 when 15th Amendment gave African-American males the right to vote.

2. The Japanese-Americans faced discrimination from other Americans during World War II because of Pearl Harbor. Ever since the first Asians arrived in America, there has been anti-Asian racism. Some examples of discrimination: removal of equal rights, subjected to harassment and hostility, had their rights revoked and imprisoned for no justifiable reason. After the Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941, the federal government rounded up and relocated 120,000 Californians of Japanese descent. Most were incarcerated in 10 remote and guarded "relocation camps" for more than two years. Despite the fact that they were officially American citizens, they were still sent to the relocation camps. The school children in the camps even had to sing the Pledge of Allegiance (ironic eh?).

Another law was the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments (1965) which also aided Asian immigrants. This helped them.