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An 8 page assessment of the struggle for black equality. Tracing key historical developments, the
author demonstrates that the Civil Rights Movement only succeeded in propelling blacks to the same level they had briefly attained in the 1870’s, a
position of at least semi-equality. The opinions as to the extent of true equality in our country today, however, vary radically. Many blacks
point to such phenomena as police brutality and racial profiling as evidence that equality has yet to be achieved. These same blacks seem to have
limited faith in our government's insuring this equality. At the same time, however, many are working within the system to do just that.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
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Racial inequity has been an unfortunate fact of life since colonial times in the Americas. At the end of the Civil War, of course, one of the
most blatant forms of racial ineuqlity, slavery, was abolished with Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation. Although slavery was abolished, however, the country had a long road ahead of it in achieving
true equality between blacks and whites. Many, in fact, would contend that that goal has yet to be accomplished even today (Byrd, 1990).
The policies and legislation which followed the Civil War left a long term mark on our nation. It would be a mark which would extend all
the way to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and even to today. By all accounts, the situation immediately after the War was quite bleak for the nations
blacks. The Emancipation Proclamation had freed them from the bonds of slavery but it did nothing toward meeting their basic needs. The former slaves had no money and
no where to live (McGuire and Portwood, 1991). Blacks had grown accustomed to being cared for by their owners much in the same way livestock was cared for, consequently
they even lacked the experience to care for their most basic of needs (McGuire and Portwood, 1991). There was plenty of work to be done in the Reconstruction South
but there was no money to pay for that work (McGuire and Portwood, 1991). There were no provisions made for education either so that blacks might learn to meet
their own needs and have some hope of progressing in the Reconstruction years (McGuire and Portwood, 1991). In March 1865, Congress
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