The Emancipation Proclamation allowed African Americans to fight in the war but got worse jobs than the white people and got paid less still and African Americans could get recaptured by their owners so they had to becareful
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed African Americans to fight in the war but got worse jobs than the white people and got paid less still and African Americans could get recaptured by their owners so they had to becareful
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed African Americans to fight in the war but got worse jobs than the white people and got paid less still and African Americans could get recaptured by their owners so they had to becareful
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed African Americans to fight in the war but got worse jobs than the white people and got paid less still and African Americans could get recaptured by their owners so they had to becareful
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed African Americans to fight in the war but got worse jobs than the white people and got paid less still and African Americans could get recaptured by their owners so they had to becareful
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed African Americans to fight in the war but got worse jobs than the white people and got paid less still and African Americans could get recaptured by their owners so they had to becareful
When I was a kid (say just a half century ago), there were still "white" and "colored" signs in Washington DC. 150 years ago it was even worse, and the farther south you went, the worse it got. If you were smart, you ran.
There may have been a few African Americans who were better off after the Reconstruction but the majority of them were worse off. While they were technically "free", they were treated as second class citizens. Most of them were released from their lives as slaves and found themselves without shelter and food.
worse.
The freedom riders were a group of African Americans during the 1960's who were testing the use of desegregation in the buses, and they were often thrown in jail, or worse
Yes there where instances of resistance and a few minor rebellions but none succseded and none where epic by any means.
make it worse