Quote,"Emancipation ended slavery, but NOT its legacy."
After the Civil War was over and reconstruction began, it became necessary to give equal rights for the freed slaves. That was how the 'Jim Crow' laws came to be. Jim Crow laws were basically segregation laws named after a popular play character.
They were meant to establish 'equal' rights. But while there was a separate place for the prejudiced americans, they were not of the same standard. The treatment heartless, conditions dirty, and the jobs worthless.
They could be killed and the police often wouldn't lift a finger. They could be bleeding out, and the doctor eight hours late. Property stolen and considered lost forever.
Many people stood against this: Jessie Daniel Adams, Barbara Johns, Booker T. Washington, Charles Evers, Walter White... any so many more. Americans who stood against an wall built between them and the better life that so many others came for.
I wonder how many people get here only to realize the dream of a better life is sham. A teasing wisp of wind that passed by. People from Mexico, Japan, China, what have you. Even today groups of Americans are met with prejudice because they aren't originally from here.
I digress, eventually, 1965, people finally decided to man-up and segregation was abolished, destroyed, canned, ect. History moved on, hard-feelings remained and still do to this day.
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