African American History from Reconstruction to the Present

FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO THE PRESENT
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From Reconstruction to the Present
The African Americans have a century’s long history from slavery to freedom. After winning the Civil War in 1865, their suffering had ended, and the coming black generations would have equality and justice in a social, economic, political, and racial context. However, covering their history from the period of reconstruction to the present, it is apparent that the racial protests and black community sociopolitical groups are an inevitable result of the struggle of black Americans in a nation of white supremacy.
Reconstruction carries all aftermaths of the Civil War, followed by it. This era began a new, legal racial struggle for African Americans, who had understood to strive for civil rights after standing from the ashes of slavery. A nation already tussling with deep depression of post-slavery and post-civil war has to confront Jim Crow and segregation laws with new self-determination. Notably, the black race in the south has more challenging racism prevailing on social, economic, and political grounds. This raised opposition represented by many black groups, rejecting the misgovernment and racial division legalized by the constitution. Although the north had better circumstances and fewer protest groups to resist post-civil war constitutions, segregation also entered there with the ending years of this period. Although the reconstruction ended with the compromise of 1876, it left the country with restored ethnic differences and renewed black passion for attaining legal freedom.[Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Text Publishing, 2015, 45.)]
The end of reconstruction in 1877 could not bring the American dream to its reality. The racial discrimination in the social, cultural, economic, political, and criminal justice system led to many protests by black communities. Specifically, the disfranchisement of black voters spread violence and furiousness in the U.S. the post-slavery African Americans were looking forward to equality in all walks of life and brotherhood between the whites and blacks. The political disability of newly freed slaves inflamed their already smoldering passion for self-assertion and black pride. This constant endeavor for development and equality brought the nation to the end of the 19th century. The beginning of the twentieth century was when the first generation of black African Americans began to rise to achieve citizenship rights after the end of slavery in the age of Nadir. With constant efforts and protests to gain social justice, the black people appeared with vitality and patriotism when the first world war broke out in 1914.[2. Goeser, The World and Me, 65]
The first World War ended in 1918, giving a push to commercial life toward Great Depression, which targeted African Americans more than whites. When the shortage of jobs surfaced, blacks had to leave their jobs in more significant numbers than whites. Even the charity houses blocked blacks preferring whites for food and accessories to tackle the food problems during Great Depr...