Back_To_Africa_Movement

Back To Africa Movement Promoting the Back to Africa Movement In the nineteen twenties, black people were hated and treated like animals in the sense of not getting any respect or freedom. At that time Jim Crow presented some laws, including; not having the right to vote, not be able to use the Pullmans, and have to use different water fountain…etc. Emily Christmas Kinch then in this situation stepped into the picture and told what might have been the truth and a hopeful dream about “going back to your roots” so to speak. She made a speech and presented it to the black people of the United States. The speech consisted of the request and encouragement of all black people leave America and go to Africa specifically Liberia. She used many examples of why people should go to African some of which were; being able to enjoy your manhood by living in a country with a black president and be invited to a banquet at the state house. She used criticizing words like, “Why have you stayed so long' What has civilization and freedom meant to you if not to come back and give your life… [You Have] bridged the rivers, thrown up skyscrapers for black, people, because, speech, go, back, africa, words, united, told, time, take, states, right, presented, meant, long, life, kinch, freedom, forever, christianity, being, america, able, yet, wow, working, white, water, walk, vote, utterly, until, uneducated