Compromise Of 1877 Dbq

Throughout history, blacks and whites have had an unfair advantage when it came to wealth and equality. The era in which black people had the biggest disadvantage to whites has to be during the era after the reconstruction, where the tensions were high to the point where crimes were committed in attempts to achieve equality. To begin with, the Jim Crow Laws affected the equality of blacks and whites by separating them from each other. Next, the Southern Black Codes played a huge role in creating a huge disadvantage for the Africans. Last of all, The Compromise of 1877 was an act that changed the equality between blacks and whites individuals. This era following the reconstruction, starting in 1865 was filled with numerous laws, policies, and

America has had a long history of crimes that occur in order to achieve this equality as expressed in this line “in general we have seen theft, injustice, lynchings, riot and murder based on “accusations” or attempts at “social equality” (Dubois). As Dubois has stated, the crimes that have been committed in attempt to create social equality, have only caused more problems by harming others. This expresses how socially unequal the colored people have it, since it creates a motive to do something in order to have their voices and opinions heard. Similar to the recent freeway protest in Sacramento, which was an attempt to create a social equality to prevent police brutality. Compared to the acts, laws, and policies that are going to be discussed later, this event specifically shows how African Americans are still striving for social equality in present day America. For example, in this text a member of the protests states “"This is an epic day for black Sacramento," Brrazey Liberty, a musician and Black Lives Matter activist told The Sacramento Bee. "We feel like we had a victory today. Today was ours." (Wamsley NPR). Based on this statement regarding the protest, It is clear that there are still goals set in place to create social equality, which means that there is still social inequality that exists

Some may believe that even though they are separated, they received fair and equal treatment which was not true as expressed in this line “In legal theory, blacks received "separate but equal" treatment under the law — in actuality, public facilities for blacks were nearly always inferior to those for whites, when they existed at all. In addition, blacks were systematically denied the right to vote in most of the rural South through the selective application of literacy tests and other racially motivated criteria (Freedom Riders PBS). As expressed in the quote, the black population were both separated and treated unequally as they were seen as inferior to the whites. This creates an unfair advantage when it comes to getting jobs and going to school. Imagine being segregated from all of the white kids in school, being forced to be in separate classrooms and sitting in the back of the room. Perhaps, being in a separate class with just colored people could result in having a less experienced teacher, or affect the education you receive since colored people are prioritized lower than white people. Another example could be how, blacks are forced to only use black facilities such as bathrooms "The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even