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A 4 page contention that Civil Rights first went through a process of development beginning after the Civil War but that this process almost immediately switched to one of deterioration and destruction as a result of white resentment of new-found black rights. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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It can be contended that civil rights in the United States underwent a deleterious evolution from the period immediately following the Civil War to
approximately 1938. Three points will be made in this paper which support this contention. The first is that immediately after the Civil War provisions were put in place
to protect the rights of the recently freed slaves. The second point, however, is that these provisions were enacted in an environment which at its core was still deeply
prejudiced. This environment, in fact, would lead to the eventual deterioration of the civil rights provisions, a fact which serves as the third point in this paper. The
situation which arose immediately after the Civil War, therefore, was initially one of development of Civil Rights. What would immediately ensue, however, was a process of deterioration in
which the intent of the civil rights laws would essentially be ignored and finally a process of destruction in which these provisions would, to a large degree, intentionally be withdrawn.
With the end of the Civil War the Emancipation Proclamation had freed African Americans 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, 1997). 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, 1997).
There was plenty of work to be done in the Reconstruction South but there was no money to pay for that
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