How Civil Right And Domestic Policy Correspond By...

DeAndre DeHoney Professor: Chris Politz U.S. History 1301 Word Count: 1328 On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The Proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellion states are and hence forward shall be free. In this paper I will specify how civil right and domestic policy correspond. The Emancipation Proclamation was a result of the 4 year civil war that was started by numerous unfair and brutal treatment to what was considered labor workers. Though all were not African American personnel that was bought and sold, all were freed when this policy was enforced. Domestic policy is an area of policy that is†¦show more content†¦They were added to the Constitution on December 5, 1791, in this time, slaves were not considered human. Three of every five slaves counted as one person in the population. The civil war that eventually ended with the Emancipation Proclamation stated that everyone being held as slaves within the r ebellion states where free after the brutal beating, killing, raping, and burning of slaves. The African Americans decided that I was time to stand for something and what better to stand for than themselves, and not only them, but for their children and their children’s children. African Americans began to band together and show the rest of the world what it truly means to be one nation under god. They showed what it means to be simply an American. A family by that name of Dahmer was a prime example of this. Vernon Dahmer was a free man that voiced to the African American people that they need to speak and be heard. When he began to lead people into victory, the Ku Klux Klan came to his home in the midst of the night while he and his family were sleeping and began to burn their home. After Mr. Vernon suffered horrific burns he died the following day, some of his last word where if you don’t vote you don’t count. The KKK hated and despised anything that meant bla cks would better them sleeves and be more than what they already where. Things that have taken place in the pass as well as what is currently taken place have left the questions have we overcome