Throughout the nineteenth and the 1960’s there has been a strong race consciousness throughout African American culture. This was due to the fight for the abolition of slavery in the early part of the nineteenth century; then the fight for equality in the second half of the nineteenth century after the civil war, during the reconstruction period which led to set backs in the rights of blacks because of the supreme court agreeing that separate but equal was indeed equal, eventhough it was not; and then finally in the 1960’s one sees a revival in race consciousness where African Americans take to the streets and fight for their rights on a scale never seen before in American history. Although, these seem to be the periods in history where race relatins seem to take the center stage in American politics, race has always been an issue throughout every period in American history. Race, although not at the same scale as it did in the nineteenth and the 1960’s, still is a big issue today. It appears to be a big issue because segregation
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them not being able to get as successful jobs as the whites. If they do not receive as successful jobs as the whites, African Americans will constantly be kept in a class beneath the gereral wealth status of the whites. If they are kept poor, then they will continue to have poor schools. This results in a never-ending cycle of African Americans being kept in the poorer communities; thus, being segregated racially
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