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Slavery
It is a very big thing back to the 16th century. People are using slaves to work for them without paying them and gave them only a little food. It was very common that African American being caught and became slave to a person. -
Reconstruction
At the end of the Civil War, the South entered a period called Reconstruction during which state governments were reorganized before the rebellious states were allowed to be readmitted to the Union. A constitutional amendment to this effect was passed by the House of Representatives in January 1865, after having already been approved by the Senate in April 1864, and it was ratified in December 1865 as the Thirteenth Amendment. -
Civil Rights in the Courts
The position of African Americans was quite bleak.racial inequality was a fact of everyday life. African American leaders and thinkers themselves disagreed on the right path forward. Some, like Booker T. Washington, argued that acceptance of inequality and segregation over the short term would allow African Americans to focus their efforts on improving their educational and social status until whites were forced to acknowledge them as equals. -
Other Problem
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, efforts to tackle these problems were stymied by large-scale public opposition, not just in the South but across the nation. Attempts to integrate public schools through the use of busing—transporting students from one segregated neighborhood to another to achieve more racially balanced schools—were particularly unpopular and helped contribute to “white flight” from cities to the suburbs. -
Woolworth’s Lunch Counter
Blacks still experienced blatant prejudice in their daily lives. On 2/1/1960, four college students took a stand against segregation in Greensboro, when they refused to leave a Woolworth’s lunch counter without being served. Over the next several days, hundreds of people joined. After some were arrested and charged with trespassing, protesters launched a boycott. Their efforts spearheaded peaceful demonstrations in cities and helped launch the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. -
Legislating Civil Rights
Progress toward equality for African Americans remained slow in the 1950s. In 1962, Congress proposed what later became the Twenty-Fourth Amendment; the amendment went into effect after being ratified in early 1964. Several southern states continued to require residents to pay poll taxes in order to vote in state elections until 1966 when the Supreme Court declared that requiring payment of a poll tax in order to vote in an election at any level was unconstitutional.
