Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past, Present, and Future

Seth Eck, Brielle Felo, Lauren McLain, Bloomsburg University
African Americans in the Workplace
Discrimination is an ongoing problem, not only in the United States, but in other countries as
well. That is why we decided to focus our presentation on African Americans in the Workplace. The
purpose of this project is to discuss how African Americans are discriminated against in the workplace,
and how being discriminated against has affected them. African Americans were affected by the 1964
Civil Rights Act and were treated differently before and after its passing. Stereotyping has affected
African Americans from slavery and segregation, and still does to this day. Ever since the late 1990s,
there have been more African Americans to get into the higher positions of a company. Their core values,
customs and cultural differences have played an important role in how they have succeeded in the
workplace throughout the years.
The theme of the Frederick Douglass conference was, ―Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past,
Present, and Future.‖ Our topic relates to this theme due to the fact that we discuss driscrimination against
African Americans, and their rights within the workplace, and out of the workplace. We discuss the
history of African Americans, regarding slavery in the past, what they deal with within the workplace
(such as the glass ceiling), and how others can help eliminate discrimination against them in the future.
This is an important message for college students because, while they experience new people, cultures
and races in their new environment, they can remember what we discussed in our presentation about
discrimination against African Americans. Our information can also help them when they enter the work
force, regarding African Americans and how they are treated in the workplace.
Before the creation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the African Americans were treated horribly.
They were tortured; they had no freedom, had to listen to and do what their masters said, and had no
opportunities to do anything that they pleased, unlike the Euro-Americans. A ―Euro-American‖ (or
European American) is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the original
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