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ore officials were elected. Even white officials realized the importance of black’s vote and intended to pursue their support. From this point, the statesmen had to care about the interests of blacks. These changes happened in education, employment and political field influenced each other, and formed the virtuous circle. More well-educated blacks become very competitive to higher position. Then they could hold more rights to protect their full citizen rights. Ⅲ. The Existing African American Problems Racial problem is very complex in America, because of three factors, such as conceptions of American white, slavery and black consciousness interacting with each other. The Civil Rights Movement is a particularly important milestone in solving this problem. It has a close relation with the advantages of American culture. This superiority has been permeated its political system especially the law aspect. Discrimination can be divided into two kinds, so does racial discrimination. One is called the de jure discrimination, which has been mentioned above. It refers to racial segregation that is a direct result of law or official policy. The other is de facto discrimination which referring to racial discrimination that result from practice, such as housing patterns or other social factors, rather than the law. The development of education had been taken critical role in eliminating de jure discrimination. Though de jure discrimination had been eliminated, racial discrimination that results from practice (such as housing patterns or other social factors) rather than the law, which called the de facto discrimination, still exist in American society. This is a result of cognitive aspect of prejudice: stereotypes. Stereotypes had been existed in people’s mind for hundreds of years. De facto discrimination persists in America, signified by the education and wage gap between African Americans and whites. With the aim of giving all persons an equal chance to education and employment, and to protect their civil rights, regardless of their race, religious beliefs, or gender, many social movement connected with education broke out, because only the equality of education could assure equal opportunity in other field. Programs like affirmative action, which could remedy de facto discrimination. This program can help minority groups getting equal opportunity in education, and then their individual ability can be improved through such process. That will help them winning social and economic equality. Thus, a virtuous circle in solving racial problem was formed. On the other hand, the same education environment shared by the whites and colored people could make a better understanding to people of different racial. Affirmative action is a term referring to various government policies that aim to increase the proportion of African-Americans, women, and the other minorities in jobs and educational institutions historically dominated by white men. The policies usually require employers and institutions to set goals for hiring or admitting minorities. Though affirmative action was acceptable in the early years, nowadays it becomes extremely controversial because of the change of American population’s proportion. The population of minority groups, especially blacks and Hispanics, is becoming larger and larger. Some demographers expected that the population of whites would be less than Hispanics in 50 years. That means whites will no longer the largest gro