Weekly Article Topic:

"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"

African-Americans during the Reconstruction of the Union and the Confederate states were finally free by the Lincoln's 13th Amendment which abolished slavery and During the Civil Rights Movement they were hunted down by the clan and lynched mercilessly. Back during the Reconstruction it seemed like they were giving a bit more, I guess- Respect. Yes, they were slaves but they weren't severely killed and mutilated. 


Lincoln's very own words "I am not now, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social or political equality of the white and black races. I am not now nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor of intermarriages with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and the blackraces which will forever forbid the two races living together on social or political equality. There must be a position of superior and inferior, and I am in favor of assigning the superior position to the white man." Shows how how he was neither Pro-Slavery or for Anti-Slavery also followed by another quote "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." Back then everything was against them but they still had their amount of what was "freedom" now into the later days of the civil rights movement everything went haywire from the revealment of the Ku Klux Klan(KKK) to the assasination of John F. Kennedy.

The Klan was a white-supremacist group who despised anybody who wasn't white, they lynched black sharecroppers and anyone who really stood in their way, no african-americans were saved they were all day after day worrying about their lives, one bad look and that was enough to kill one another. The African-Americans were mostly all in debt, used for war, or slaughters and sold by the pieces in harsh mutilated . Most of the world still doesn't understand how brutal things were in these times, and most of things I can't even explain in this weekly article since most of it is NSFW, so i'll end my weekly article here.