Did Life Get Better for Blacks?

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Personally I think that there are some reasons as to why life did get better for blacks but there always seems to be a down side to those, as well as bad reasons and some of the good reasons didn’t come or get introduced until much later. For instance: the voting was introduced to blacks as well but they didn’t actually realise the equality until much later. One of the good reasons that helped blacks was The Freedman’s Bureau. This was an organisation set up by the government in 1865. It organised education, health care, orphanages, and found reasonable work for ex-slaves. It also helped 21% of people read and write, although if you could read you weren’t allowed to vote and some of the schools were burnt down and pupils were beaten up.- this shows that even though the law of it was a really good idea, racism was still an issue as the whites and blacks were mixed together. Sharecropping was where slaves were made to work for their original slave masters on the plantations and instead of being constantly paid with money, the slaves would get given a third of the crops, but only if enough crops were harvested so slaves would have to rely on good harvesting if they wanted to get paid. However, if there was not enough rain, the crops wouldn’t grow properly so the slaves would have no food for however long, meaning that some wouldn’t be able to survive. Not only would they not survive, but it wasn’t very helpful to their lives later on because they fell into debt so there wasn’t much point of it. Some of the laws that were enforced included one that allowed blacks to stand for election and to vote but it then got taken away and didn’t help and the equality was still very poor. In the 1930’s although 50% of the population of Southern towns were black, they had no vote and could not marry whites. Segregation meant that blacks had to have their own schools, their own
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