Discuss the relationships between the treatment of African-Americans during Reconstruction with the treatment of the same peoples during the United States Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
The treatment of African-Americans during the Reconstruction was very bad and in my view sick and wrong. Many white folks would come to hangings and leaching as a family event. During the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s it wasn't as bad as it was back during the civil war age but still was wrong. After the Civil War African Americans gained some freedoms, such as the segregation which means all people could have white and black schools, benches, water fountains, anything you can think of that is not private they could have segregation. Also slavery was banished but still went on after that. It even still happens today. Sharecroppers where a different form of slavery. African Americans still had there freedom but had to pay more money they earned to the farmer that gave them the land and gave them the tools to earn the cops to sell. They still had to obey everything the white farmer said and if they did not they would loose there land and house. So they would make no money have no money. So they did not really have a choice. It was still slavery in my eyes. During the 1950s it had gotten a little bit better due to more rights for the African Americans such as right to vote. But still no women could vote. Lynching went on in the United States after and before the Civil War. African Americans where burned alive or hanged because of something they where accused of doing. Many of the lynching where sick and wrong. I could never image a human doing something like that. But it just shows that mankind is sick and can do bad things. But back in those days the people who where doing the lynching thought they where doing nothing wrong. If they could see this day and age they would know they have done wrong and would regret doing it. But this happened a lot during Reconstruction. After Reconstruction was over, many African Americans gained jobs but where paid very little and did not make much at all. Only enough to live on. Also if an African American was running for something and a white man was running for the same thing, the posters would be very unfair on the African Americans, because they where mistreated. Mostly the white man would win. The Civil Rights movement changed this, so that African Americans were not mistreated as much. And the voting for something could actually be fair. Also during the lynching, the white folks would make it as painful as possible for the African American that was going to die. They would do this by cutting parts of body off. White folks would also burn the African Americans and would sell parts of their heart and liver for 25 cents. This in my mind is sick. When no one wanted it they would cut it up to the smallest parts. Little white girls would take pictures smiling while holding the legs of a lynched African American. They would act as if they where proud to be seen in the photo. This would make me sick to death if i ever saw i human being treated like this.
