Segregation After the civil war in the USA, the African Americans gain “equal” rights. But the 14th amendment in 1868 (Absolute equality of the two races before the law) didn’t include “social rights” which meant that they didn’t get much choices in society, like choosing where you wanted to sit on a bus. This still made the African Americans feel inferior, knowing that within their home town the “whites” had the choices, and actual freedom. Blacks responded to their situation in 4 ways as their situation began to worsen from 1877. They would co-operate with any willing whites, migrate to the North or West, protest politically and would follow accommodationism.
Supervisor of coloured regiments started to respect the black people. There were some considerations about letting dark-skinned people in the confederate army but until the end of the war no serious regiments were deployed. Even thou the Union won and slavery was abolished the black’s situation didn’t change that much. Prejudice and dislike still existed. The respect that the black soldiers
However, African American played significant roles in the war effort in the Union Army during the Civil War. Few blacks lived in Free states. Those who lived the Free states were segregated. These African Americans were restricted in neighborhoods, they were unable to vote or ineligible to run for public office. Most men volunteered early in the war effort.
It would seem that racial equality had not improved, but worsened. In October 1917 the first group of black army officers qualified, although they were only allowed to command black units and the majority of officers who commanded black units were white. Black people were first allowed to join the army during the civil war after the emancipation proclamation was passed in 1863, so little had changed in terms of racial equality in the armed forces. The turning point in racial equality was before WW1, with the emancipation proclamation. The 15th amendment (1870) gave black men equal voting rights with white men.
Many died to hands of whites for their participation in these rebellions. Whites of the Southern states tried hard to keep slavery the way it was but with the steady growing number of free educated blacks in the Northern states grew the desire for slaves to obtain the same. In the North, blacks were able to obtain an education, work as well as own their own stores. Eventually, Abraham Lincoln got into office and many Southern Whites believed he sided on the abolishment of slavery so they made their states separate from that of the Northern portion of the United States. Lincoln supported the Union, which were the Northern States which held free blacks, and gave the Confederate States an ultimatum to join back with the Union or war will begin.
The black population of such cities was concentrated in ghetto areas, where homes and schools for blacks were inferior to those for whites. Because of their lack of education, blacks had fewer job opportunities than whites. Outside the south, whites were just as unwilling as southerners to mix with blacks. You can change the laws but you can’t force to change the attitudes whites felt towards them. Whites did not
• Southern school for blacks were poor standards which resulted in black people not being educated enough to vote or work for a living. • Southerners and northerners refused to work alongside one another due to the stress and havoc of the Civil War • The plantation southern belle’s morals and beliefs had all changed so the social class fell. • Racism continued to increase in the southern rather than decrease causing backlash amongst the black citizens. • Black people began to blend in with social classes as they were not trapped anymore and were ‘free’. • Even though slavery was illegal, sly and unofficial slavery took place in order for black people to survive and live in both the south and north of America.
Such situations were all their life until the north defeated the south in the American Civil War in 1870’s. They got free by the new constitution released during the war. But the condition was not as good as people thought, the Africa Americans still were prejudiced especially in the southern U.S. Nowadays, although the situation has been improved a lot, Black man still get some bias form white people. The novel demonstrates many instance of mistreatment. Black people only get poorest jobs and hardest jobs.
With this knowledge in hand, was no reason to look down on blacks to start with. At the end of the Civil War, Blacks in America started to be viewed differently. With the signing of the emancipation proclamation, by President Abraham Lincoln, Black people became citizens of the United States of America. However, laws were soon passed to keep African Americans from having any real since of belonging. Black people did not have the right to vote and were not allowed in many places that white people were.
This would mean an entirely different lifestyle for African Americans. There was still racism going on, but no African American was considered a slave. By ending slavery this forced the south to find a new way of supporting themselves and working their cash crops. In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation meaning that all people that were held as slaves within the United States shall be forever set free. But this did not end slavery in the nation.