African americans have been discriminated in many ways since they first came to US. African Americans have dealt with slavery in a lot of ways. They are still being discriminated against and some racists still run around trying to be like the past. They wish to live in peace and with every single equal right they should have.
    
    The first struggle was to get out of slavery. They did not fight for their rights in that instant they needed it. The only way to get out of the slavery was from the help of the president which was Lincoln in that time. After the slavery act, they had some equal rights but there was much more than those few they had. They could work and go to school but some still were servants and much did not have those privilages. One discrimination movement was from Rosa Park who was arrested for sitting in the white area of the bus. She and other African Americans helped to struggle out of that court with the equal right of sitting where ever they wanted. They tried to resist discrimination by forming communities and groups such as NAACP. This helped although discrimination was still in hand up until the 1900's. The most important event was the movement held by Martin Luther King Jr. which was one of the most important events for black history.

   They struggled to get out of that hole of pain and suffer because of the discrimination and civil rights equality. African American were peaceful just because if something was wrong they had to pay for everything. Although people say violence starts with the color black this could only have happened because the white provoced it. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/27.html http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/history/tm/black.html  http://afroamhistory.about.com/