Black Americans Facing Racial Obstacles (1890-1980)

Abstract

This study aims at presenting the different racial obstacles and kinds of discrimination that the black Americans suffered from, starting with the bad treatments under slavery to racism and the different racial segregation laws that separated blacks whites , and how they challenged hurdles to achieve equality and get their full civil rights like any other white citizens. The most important events that were done for the aim of equality and freedom were: Harlem Renaissance Movement, Civil Right Movements and Freedom Riders, in which the blacks sacrificed their lives to secure their rights, they could defy all the obstacles and proved themselves in the American society which took them a long period of suffering, struggle and fighting to achieve their goals and to prove that the color of skin is not considered as a level of superiority or inferiority.