Essays on Disfranchisement

It seems like nowadays the concept of feminism gained a negative connotation equating its followers as fanatics and usually mocking their intentions. This movement, which managed to bring freedom and rights to women, is considered today as obsolete and irrelevant, as society believed that females were fully liberated. However, it is far from being true. Female professionals are still paid less than their male counterparts, women are stilled viewed through the prism of patriarchal values, and the dissemination of power between men and women remains unequal to these days. In order to revive the memories of the achievements gained ...

The struggle for equality in the United States never ceased for some activists championing the rights of African Americans. They advocated for equal access to education and representation in the state and the federal government. Various organizations were formed during the early twentieth century to combat racism and fight for civil rights. These organizations had missions that guided their agenda and had influential leaders who fought tirelessly to ensure that the agenda was met. The Niagara Movement was one of those organizations. It was formed in 1905, by W.E.B Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. The name signified a ...

Introduction

In the American History, Jim Crow is a term that been used to refer to the transition that followed the period of reconstruction to the late 1960s (Carson, 2003). During this era of Jim Crow, the Black Codes dominated the transition. The Black Codes is a term that was used to refer to the informal rules the colonial masters used to ensure that black people would work as slaves in the plantations (Carson, 2003). This period of Jim Crow came as America history’s most famous period. It is a period that was characterized by racial segregation of the Blacks that lived ...