Ebony And Ivory : The Civil War

Throughout history, racial conflict and segregation have impacted African Americans in many ways. The end of the civil war led to African Americans gaining their freedom. Unfortunately, racial conflict and discrimination continued long after the Civil War. What was the difference in treatment between the South and West in regards to racial conflict and segregation? People in the South were firm believers in African Americans having little to no freedom. Many efforts were made to fight racial conflict and discrimination. Looking at racial conflict, let’s compare and contrast the South versus the North’s treatment of African Americans.

There was also a lot of laws also known as jim crow laws. These laws were acted to “keep people in their place” and there intensions were to be separate but equal. In the article “Jim Crow Laws Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site” One law that seems fine today wasn't back then, you couldn’t marry someone with a different race, just because of the color on their skin and if you do so the marriage will be voided and illegal. Some of the laws were so silly and outrageous rules like African American amature baseball players had to be within two blocks away from each other. That law was so outrageous because all they want to do is have fun and do what they love but they have to remember to be be two blocks away from them. Manners is very important to the south, you would always say yes sir or mam. African American people especially had to speak a certain way which was called Jim Crow Etiquette. For example they had to call white males Boss or Master. Which was extremely unfair because they were called rude names like Boy and old man instead of being called something that means you're the boss or your master or you have a higher stature. It was the same for woman too they didn't have a good name like miss or Mrs they were called auntie or girl. You can definitely tell a difference how white or african american people were treated and talked

The segregation took place in churches, railroads, and schools, prisons, etc. There was also segregation in public housing, which caused the creation of “Nigger Hill,” “New Guinea,” and “Little Africa.” The more western north barred African American from coming into the state in same way. After the Civil war, the north had shown its position on white supremacy through its actions. Abraham Lincoln and the winning politic party also believed the same ideas of White Supremacy as shown by Lincoln’s speech,” I am not…in favor of brining about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white… I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”

Although the first steps towards in improvements for African-American culture began in the North, social and economic conditions didn't improve much at all. The racial attitudes of whites were still obvious among the white society. Laws banning interracial marriage and voting among free blacks accompanied every northern state emancipation. These laws were supposedly designed to

From the 1930s to the 1950s, African Americans were being severely persecuted and ostracized. The Jim Crow Laws allowed for legal segregation and continued control over blacks in the South. Those laws severely restricted the rights of the African American in the southern half of the United States and essentially continued to restrain them even though the United States Constitution forbid it. The North did not have such laws, but blacks still suffered. When African Americans migrated to the North, they were disillusioned by the fact that they were still not equal. The African Americans were instead delivered a subtler form of the discriminatory actions within the South. African Americans struggled for equality everywhere because of white

The civil rights movement occurred between mid- 1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights, equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well a right to vote, and public facilities. In 1909, the NAACP had the most influence to fight for equality for colored people. Another group that believed in fighting for African American rights were the “Black Panthers” as known as the Black Power movement. The Black Panthers were an African American group that fought for African American rights.

The NAACP was an important part of the civil rights movement during the late 1950s and the early 1960s. The NAACP was founded in 1909 and fought for colored equality everywhere in America. NAACP supported a lot of rights marches like the March on Washington in the 50s and 60s. In the 1970s, the NAACP decided to enlarge its reach of desegregation from United States to the entire world. The NAACP had helped the March on Washington and the Selma to Montgomery March to influence many great outcomes of the marches.

The South still had a disliking for blacks and the South began to form Black Codes. Black codes were restrictions put on blacks in the South. “Black codes denied blacks the right to vote, the right to own guns, the right to serve on juries, and some even forced them to work on plantations if they did not have a job” (Radical Reconstruction. youtube.com). Black codes unfairly restricted the rights of African Americans and they were morally wrong. There was much variation of the Black Codes depending on which state of the South. Some states did not even allow blacks to own property. “The Black Codes partially reverted the South into slavery” (Radical Reconstruction. youtube.com). Once the government realized what was happening they decided that reconstruction had to be enforced. “Congress sent the military creating radical regimes throughout sectionalist states” (Sparknotes.com). At this time in history the south was divided into five military districts and there was a United States general put in place for each. There were many disobedient white Southerners

You got to keep your eyes on the prize to get the goal you’ve been looking for. The NAACP was an African American organization trying to change and fight for what’s right. They wanted segregated laws to be stopped because it is so unconstitional to the fact it was hard for most blacks. For one segrated schools. All blacks

After the Civil War ended laws were passed making owning slaves illegal, but most people were not very happy about them. After these wars were passed many bitter Southern states still treated African Americans very poorly. Many actions were taken by the South to try and make African Americans seem less like human beings, and more like animals from laws to secret societies.

African Americans were a very important addition to the American Civil War such as fighting and spying for both the north and the south sides. The American Civil War was a war fought in the United States between the North and South states. The war was from 1861-1865 and was because the South wanted to establish itself as a separate nation. The northern states were called the Union and the southern states were called the Confederate. Between the north and south states were the Border States, which did not belong to either of the sides. The Border States included Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. In the north, slavery did not exist but the south was the opposite. In the war, the north and south states fought against each other while the Border States were neutral. Before the war and during the war, African Americans were treated very unfairly compared to white people. This essay will examine how African Americans were treated before, during and after the Civil War.

African Americans moved from southern farms to the North. In the North, they lived in segregated neighborhoods, faced violence, and were given the worst jobs. Conditions in the South were even worse, because state laws deprived them of civil rights and segregated them from whites (Schultz, 2014).

By passing the Compromise of 1877 and removing federal troops from the south, white southerners reasserted their power over the freed blacks. Most blacks were forced to become sharecroppers. Where they farmed land that they didn't own and when harvest season came had to give most of their profit to the land owner. The fees were so high that the black workers would never get out of debt. Now "free" workers were working under the same conditions and the same families they had been slaves for before the Civil War. In order to further segregate the states enacted the Jim Crow laws. Southern states also performed literacy tests, registration laws, and poll taxes to prevent the black population from voting. The Supreme Court gave their approval to the segregation in 1896 during Plessy v. Ferguson. The Supreme Court declared "separate but equal." If one did not follow the laws placed before them they would be punished by the law or worse, the would be lynched by white civilians. The worst year was 1892, when a total of 230 people were lynched. Reconstruction ended before reconstruction could be completed because of that black Americans would be tortured because of their race for years to

Segregation between black and whites being around since the beginning of slavery era but segregation didn’t get legal until 1896 when the supreme court sanction legal separation between black and whites in the ruling H.A. Plessy v. J.H. Ferguson. The ruling stated that separation of black and whites was legal as long equal facilities did not violate the fourteenth amendment. The united states did indeed abolish slavery but did they not intend to make blacks first class citizen as white because after the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendment was passed, the supreme court had pass three series of judgment making African Americans second class citizens. Blacks were forces via private action to separate themselves from white in areas of transportation, public accommodation, prison, school, recreational places and even armed forces. The supreme court did not make segregation illegal until 1954 during the case of Brown vs. Board of Education.

When the slaves were freed and set out to live there own lives, usually when they payed off their masters, they weren't always treated the same. Even they were “considered” american citizens they couldn’t vote because of their colour and that was a very dark time in our society. They wouldn't be able to use the same bathrooms of the white people as well which was completely discriminating them. Even though the south gets a ton of crap for discriminating blacks the north did to, The north had similar laws to the south like not being able to sit in the front of the bus (Rosa Parks).