1.
African Americans still had a rough life with terrible conditions such as segregation, Jim
Crow laws, and black codes present throughout the nation. They also faced anti African
American terrorist groups such as the KKK. African AMericans were still treated as
second class citizens compared to the rest of the nation.
2.
Washington believes that African American should work and take up all roles in society
from the bottom to the top and the problems will fade with it while DuBois believes it
takes the entire nation to overcome the problems and that African Americans should take
up political action and higher education to end inequalities.
3.
African American face higher rates of incarceration, higher rates of poverty, health
disparities, and more compared to other populations and I think the best path for them
would be to follow a path similar to Dubois. I think getting a higher education is a good
way to close the wealth gap and people with education tend to commit criminal offenses
and tend to make better health choices.
Some things include terrorism, racism, inequalities, segregation, economic downturn,
Liberty-being incarcerated currently or formally
Rights- terrorist/KKK
Opportunity- being restrained from going to school or given poorer quality education compared
to others
American Dream- a panic and/or depression can affect the American dream by not allowing
those to climb the economic scale
Pursuit of Happiness- they are denied to pursue certain paths and options due to their race by
those to control the paths who view them as inferior
Equality- segregation has hindered equality by claiming to have "separate but equal" when the
African American services were always inferior to their white counterparts
13
th
- abolished slavery in the United States and set African Americans free
14
th
granted citizenship to everyone born in the US even those who used to be slaves
15
th
gave African American men the right to vote
Wrong, evil, depressing, upsetting, unfair
