Reconstruction Era

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In January of 1863 after the Civil War, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that stated: “that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free.” Lincoln also helped approve the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. This was considered a great success for African Americans with their long-drawn-out fight for equality. Though they rejoiced with what has happened a lot wanted to interfere with the steps forward of African Americans in the United States. A lot of the local governments created things such as Jim Crow laws that fought to legalize racial segregation to stop African Americans from having equal rights. When this started Americans went into what is known as the Reconstruction Era. This proceeded with all the steps forward in Black progress being paused until the civil rights movement

 After this happened violent groups started to surface; the most popular one was the Ku Klux Klan also known as the KKK. Popular in the south, the KKK was a white supremacist hate group that mostly targeted African Americans. They were also known for targeting certain religions and homosexuals. They harassed, physically assaulted, and even murdered African Americans for being politically active. Their goal was to stop the revolutionary change for black Americans in the United States. This resulted in black Americans being harassed and facing racial discrimination in their day-to-day life. For example our Plessy vs Ferguson case; Plessy was arrested and put in jail in 1892 for simply sitting in a white train car.



I feel as if the first episode of the Reconstruction video really showed us how much of a struggle it was for black Americans to fight for equality and freedom. With every progressive movement, they made they ended up being kicked down with some new problem other American citizens would come up with. The struggle of trying to move forward with racial segregation is still underway every step, I can only imagine the frustration and anger they must have felt during this time.

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