In 1865 the 13th amendment was created which purpose was to abolish slavery in the United States. Then in 1868, 14th amendment was came alone providing a guarantee of rights and security of the freed people. Finally, the 15th amendment was issued, and it allowed African- Americans the right to vote. This led to allowing the states to come up with the black codes. These were laws that applied to the freed man stopping them from serving in juries, coming to private properties, sitting in the back of the bus and even serving the military representing the United States. This is what we know as segregation. Even though all the laws and amendments were passed they white men still did everything they could to separate the black from them.  It always seemed that the black race was progressing but at the end of the day they would go forward and back at the same time. Yeah laws were passed for them but the white race always found its way to let them know that they were still inferior, and as the United States citizens they were they could not be denied any of those rights.

For example, when the slaves were let free, the white men knew that the freed men did not have the resources to become independent right away. Yes, passing the bills and amendments was a step for the black race to become independent sometime in the future but not right away. They did not have the money, or the knowledge of education to know that they could be more the just sharecroppers. As they were “free men’ living in their masters land, they had to follow a contract that they had to sign agreeing to give about 50% of the crops to the White men to pay for everything they needed.

In the other had during the civil rights movement that took places later on they African Americans were still being treated differently. The white men segregated them by sending them to separate schools, different benches at park, sitting in the back of the public buses, not having any kind of relationship with them. They treated them as if they were not humans just as everyone else was. The whole country was divided as “white men” and in the other side the “Black Men” yes legally they have the right but they were not being enforced in any way.

The civil rights movements were a time period when the Colored men got tired of after all they have been through and everything they had done they were still treated different. Many men tried to stand up for the black men but not all of them got to live long enough to make it happen. A lot of these men were killed as they attempted to make the black men right the same as the white men. They stood up so that the white men would want to have a relation with them, why not? They were human beings, who should have the same civil rights, such as sitting in the same place in the bus, going to the same school, attending the same restaurants, drinking out of the same water fountains. Also, they should be able to have the good things the white men had. By which I mean that the white men would always have newer things and not would forget but would intentionally leave the old things that didn’t work to the freed men. At the end of the day after everything the color society wen through and everything their ancestors suffered they are not free and have the equal right so many fought for.

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