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This 3 page paper delineates the many similarities that exist between these two critical social movements. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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This is, in fact, an appropriate analogy given the many similarities there are between these two infamous points in history. Indeed, although the Reconstruction unfolded some one-hundred years before
the Civil Rights Movement, there are many parallels between the events and circumstances encompassed by each. Another justification for this analogy is that, as will be demonstrated below, the
Civil Rights Movement was really a continuation of the process started in Reconstruction. The Reconstruction years, those years immediately following the Civil War, unfolded as the nation was desperately trying
to establish policies and procedures which would act to protect the rights of the freed slaves, in regard to civil rights. Numerous organizations were involved in this effort.
The Freedmens Bureau, for example, was charged with protecting the rights of the Southern Negroes. The Bureau sat up schools and hospitals to tend to their needs, obtained jobs,
and looked after other human rights issues. Unfortunately much of the opportunity which was immediately available to blacks after the War would be gnawed away by persistent whites who
still resented black equality. Although the 13th Amendment was ratified in December of 1865, its provision that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof
the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" was not immediately upheld. Blacks were, in fact, forcibly
denied basic human rights and finally in 1871, after a continued increase in violence, an Enforcement Act was passed which severely punishing those who attempted to deprive the blacks
of their civil rights. The festering sore of resentment that had been torn wide open by the Civil War ultimately became infected and erupted with a tremendously destructive force.
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