How has the Black Lives Matter movement allowed afro-american people to emancipate ?

« Black Lives Matter How has this movement allowed afro-american people to emancipate ? Introduction : Hello today, we are going to talk about the Black Lives Matter movement and how has this movement allowed afro-american people to emancipate.

So, firstly we are going to see the context and the afro-americans situation before Black Lives Matter movement and lastly the rise of the movement and the situation of afro-americans nowdays. I. The context and the afro-americans situation before Black Lives Matter movement : a) The afro-americans situation before Until the 19th century, the Black community was used as slaves in America.

And it ends with Lincoln in September 1862 who issued the emancipation proclamation stating that all slaves were to be free.

However, 8 million afroamericans always lived in the South in 1900 which was still on a slavery coverage.

After the WWI, where a lot of afro americans served in labor battalions and service regiments, the Great Depression of the 1930s made a lot of african americans lost their jobs admist inherent discrimination.

Despite the Civil Rights movement which achieved several successes such as the bus boycott of 19551956 led by Martin Luther King Jr to defy segregation on interstate buses, the fight is not over. b) The justice system and federal system and their impacts on the Black community In fact, the Black Lives Matter activists still denounced the fact that being Black in the USA involves having more opportunities to interact with the police and suffer from police violence.

This graph show that Black people are more likely to interact with the police when it is a police officer initiated contact and White people are more likely to initiate contact with the police on their own will. Futhermore, the police stopped more Black people for possession of drugs more precisely of marijuana possession than white people according to a study by the American Civil Liberties Union of 2013 states.

Then, the mass incarceration of Black people is one of the main consequences of structural racism in the USA and this data show that Black people in 2010 were more likely to go to prison than White people.

Finally, the rising number of cases of Black people being killed by law enforcement is what led the movement to erupt. c) A feeling of disappointment from the Black community towards people in position of power When Barack Obama was elected, he represented a lot of hope for Black people. But BLM activists often express a mitigated opinion of Barack Obama because he brought a lot of hope and he used the hope as the main feeling in his speeches like after his election, he said : « With hope and virtue, let us brave the icy currents and endure what storms may come.

» Nonetheless, according to Barbara Ransby, an activist of the movement, he brought a lot.... »