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African Americans Debate Enlistment (1898), Module 5

 Thousands of African Americans troops served in the Spanish American and Philippine American wars. With that being said it was confronted with racial violence and discrimination at homes, they did so with a mix of hope, satisfaction, and disappointment. Some of the men seem enthusiastic over the idea of  enlisting in defense of the government, while some are more reserved and common-sensed, asserting that  no colored man should never again offer his services to protect a government that does not protect him. The government of the United States was not responsible nor a good leader because moat of the loyal  citizens were either burned or shot to death, like dogs, with protection. The government also ignored their  rights and claims and acted like they were all at peace and happiness. Such injustices is not tolerated by  any other civilized nation; not even in Spain guilty of such discriminations among her own citizens. As a  race what means have we for checking such unjust discriminat

Helen Hunt Jackson on a century of Dishonor (1881), Module 4

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Helen Hunt Jackson published a century of Dishonor, a history of the injustices visited upon Native  Americans. She will intend to expose the wrongs that was going on by her country. In the United States it was a limit between two hundred and fifty and three hundred thousands Indians, exclusive of those in  Alaska. The poorer, the more insignificant, the more helpless the band. The Indians found themselves of a  sudden surrounded by and caught up in the great influx of gold-seeking settlers, as helpless creatures on a  shore are caught up in a tidal wave. There was no time for the government to make treaties; not even time  for communities to make laws. The story of one tribe is the story of all, varied only by differences of time  and place but neither time nor place makes any difference in the main facts. To administer complete  citizenship of a sudden, all round, to all Indians, barbarous, and civilized alike. Cheating, robbing,  breaking promises those three are clearly things whic