The History of Unequal Treatment in the United States

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Throughout the years there has been the problem of unequal treatment between the people of the United States. This existed all the way back in 1619 when the slaves arrived in North America. The ships were disease ridden and filthy. It was in 1857 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the slaves had no rights. This was going against the U.S. Constitutions ideals of “all men created equal”. When slave families were sold they often were separated. Back then slaves couldn’t testify against those who treated them with cruelty. They were also not permitted to buy their freedom in most cases.
Many whites found the slavery of blacks being legal appalling. Most of them took part in an antislavery campaign that was responsible for the American Civil War’s beginning. When President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into action in 1863, slavery in the states that were still loyal to the Union was still occurring. In 1865 the end to slavery finally came when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, this lead to 4 million freed-slaves penniless and illiterate. The end of the Civil War and slavery left the South devastated.
In 1865, The Black Codes were made to control the southern blacks and stop them from full participation in legal, social, and political aspects of southern life. The codes in some states allowed blacks to give evidence in court, own land, attend school, and marry. When the Civil Rights Act was passed on April 9th, 1866 the Black Codes were nullified. The act officially granted blacks U.S. citizenship. In order to prevent it from being repealed, Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment to stress the Civil Rights Act by giving African Americans citizens of the nation and state that they are with in fu...

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...s. Also from these sit in’s the group SNCC or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was formed to provide a place for young blacks to partake in the Civil Rights Movement.
Through the entire Civil Rights Movements there were amazing accomplishments and may tragedies. On the 2nd of July in 1964 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. This Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law provided the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation. This brought an end to segregation and the Civil Rights Movement, but there were still events of hate crimes against the blacks and white supporters including the murder of 3 civil-rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan and the murder of Malcolm X. who founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity by members of Black Muslim faith.

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