Weekly Article 1

With the end of the Civil War came the Reconstruction, brought about by Abraham Lincoln, which finally put into place the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments into place. These were aimed to give rights to the newly freed African Americans the same amount of rights as everyone else. Through with the tenth amendment in play, the states had the rights to make their own individual laws. This led to the black codes which almost out rightfully destroyed the amendments hold over freedom for these newly freed slaves. During this time people were treated inhumanely and unjustly just like during the Civil Rights movement which was about a hundred years apart in terms of relativity.

During the time of the reconstruction the African American were discriminated against because of the color of their skin and especially during the time of the civil rights movement where racism was arguable higher then back in these times. Becoming educated was very hard for both times, however in the Civil Rights Movement had special schools for the African Americans to go to, it still was not the best education you could obtain. It was Neigh impossible to get into a school that had white kids in the school if you were African American. So much so that people would go to extreme measures to keep them out of “their” schools. Of course schooling for people during the Civil Rights Movement was mandatory the schools still did not have these same materials, such as worse things than the other school.

During both times finding a place to live was very hard to find indeed. Also during both times if you were not liked by the place you were living in at the time you would be forced out, by yet again, more extremist groups. Back during the Reconstruction former slaves were given, by Union general Sherman, land and a mule to be able to farm by themselves. Also there was sharecropping going on at this time as well which made it almost impossible to gain any more freedom as you had before because of tall the debt that was accumulated by the former slaves and because of this system were almost still as much as a slave as they were before. Which is also true during the Civil Rights Movement that money was hard to come by and with this hemorrhage of racism and hate it was a struggle not to still be in debt. This land was taken away when President Johnson ordered all the land that the former slaves had been to be given back to the former land owner. He, however, opened up a homestead act which allowed them to be granted land which was mostly swampy and unstable for farming.

During both times voting was a very hard thing to do if you were African American. Although you had the right to vote, no one would allow you to vote mainly because of the color of your skin. With black codes being adopted my so many southern states to keep down the former slaves. Many things during the Civil Rights Movement were doing the same thing such as violence towards the African Americans if there was anything that they had done that the people did not agree upon. That said there were many lynchings throughout both times however much they made it illegal. Also throughout history it is plain to see that during every new time when something new happens people tend to hate it, this is sad but true. People are afraid of change and we shouldn’t be we should embrace change so that the world won’t be as messed up and full of hate like it is now and believe me if we cannot if there was not a racial thing going on back then people would hate each other for something else.