African-Americans during Reconstruction

When Reconstruction started many African-Americans were fooled with unfair treatment and not as much right as a white man gets. Reconstruction occured 1865–1877, at the time in the South. They created the ammendments such as the 13th which allowed to abolish slavery. Although this was a good sign for African-Americans the Black Codes intended to secure a steady supply of cheap labor to continue to assume the inferiority of the freed slaves. This still did not help as they were still black people who worked in plantation for their masters.

Black people thought that they were finally free thanks to the law but white people did not think of it that way more as an opportunity to bring the invention of sharecropping. Sharecropping is basically no difference to slavery but they just get back a small portion of food and profit. With lots of work they must do what the landowner tells them to do such as to plant, harvest, repair, etc.. The farmers went down and easy into paying debts from the little pay that they win from all the hard working they put in. They actually tried to keep working more and maybe things will get better once their pay their debts but it just cause them even more problems such as health.

The US Civil Rights Movement began from 1955–1968. Its purpose is to basically is to outlaw racial discrimination against African-Americans and to restore suffrage in the southern states. After the Reconstruction ended things became still the same such as to vote were the 15th ammendment grants every man to vote yet the society denies it because of racism which is still occuring even after the Civil Rights Movement. This were just making black people more frustrated towards white men as they are still not treated equal to one another. During this time heroes such as Martin Luther King Jr. stepped up and spoke out the insanity of how black men are not treated equally. He worked to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience by just simply speaking about it.



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