The culture and trends promoted by black people no longer seemed to be resentful for the white public. Even if the majority of black people continued to experience financial problems, they did not feel intimidated. They took advantage of every opportunity to express themselves and their artistic abilities. While racism had not yet become history, its presence could no longer be felt as it was several decades earlier. Racist incidents were rarer and the U.S. had finally learnt that racism did not pay, and furthermore, that it had been pointless. Black people succeeded in accomplishing what they had been searching for more than a century. Their illiteracy and the fact that they had been unskilled at the time of the proclamation of emancipation did not initially give them many chances to thrive, but a century later, they finally succeeded to gain equal opportunities to integrate and thrive in the American society.

Unit V:

African-Americans have experienced an irregular advancement pattern ever since the time when President Lincoln issued the proclamation of emancipation. Various influencing factors such as discrimination and the Great Depression prevented them for being appreciated and praised for their true value in the American society. To this day, black people have fought their way through a world dominated by prejudices and occasional outbursts of various forms of racism manifestations.

At the same time as some of their actions contributed to the improvement of their reputation, others have not, and because of them, society still has difficulties treating black people similar to how it treats whites. Because of the fact that their history makes them more likely to experience financial problems, black people are often inclined to also experience problems such as poor education and in some cases, their own resilience to adapt and accept the white people as their equals and not their opponents and competitors. This leads to more severe troubles, making them more vulnerable to resorting to living their lives in crime or (in the case of adolescents) to have early age pregnancies. Both setbacks lead to more and more African-Americans being deprived of successfully integrating society.

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Robin D.G. Kelley, and Earl Lewis, eds., to Make Our World Anew: A History of African-Americans (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) iii, Questia, Web, 23 Feb. 2010.

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Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present, ed. Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992) ii, Questia, Web, 23 Feb. 2010.

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present, ed. Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992) ii, Questia, Web, 23 Feb. 2010.

idem

Angela Coleman Dixon, Christopher T. Schoonmaker, and William W. Philliber, "A Journey toward Womanhood: Effects of an Afrocentric Approach to Pregnancy Prevention among African-American Adolescent Females," Adolescence 35.139 (2000): 425, Questia, Web, 23 Feb. 2010