Could you imagine living in a time that if you left your house you would be in danger? Well, during the late 1800s African Americans faced this type of prejudice. After the Civil War ended in 1865 African Americans thought they would get equal rights and no longer be slaves. What they thought was exactly the opposite of what happened. They were still slaves and they were treated very unfairly.

Martin Luther King Jr. helped African Americans fight against many injustices. One of the social injustices that African Americans faced was that they had to sit on the back of buses. After Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting where she was supposed to, African Americans started a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. This boycott worked and buses started to lose money. After awhile, blacks were able to sit in the front of buses. Another social injustice was that blacks couldn’t go to white schools. In order to fight against this, African Americans took this situation to the Supremethat African Americans had to overcome. This movement of Civil Rights is very important to study to actually realize the terrible struggle. Today, African Americans have equal rights, but racism still exists.

The civil right ened in 1865.This was a politi cal right ,Local goverments forced african american to pay money and pass a difficlut  literacy test before they could even vote. white did not have to take a literacy test. Because african americans could not vote they could not change the laws.

   This was a social rights , sevice and ficities wthout being discriminated against. racist law did not allow afrivan americans to go to the same school as white students , eat in the same restaurants or sit in the front of public buses.

    This was a economic right given jus the freedom to earn a livin and own a property. Local laws stopped african american form gettin jobs . such as police offcers. banks would not give them loans to but homes or start businesses. many freed lsaves had no choice but to work as farmers and maids for their old slave masters.

How would you feel if you went to war for freedom and after the war you were still not treated equally because of your skin color? well after the Civil War in the year of 1865 African Americans were still not being treated equally, only because of the color of their  skin color. African Americans decided to fight for there rights which lead to the Civil Rights movement. This movement was sucessful because now African Americans are not judged on the color of their skin. They can now go to the same school as whites and they are able to eat at the same restaurant .

            Some injustices the African Americans went through were political and social. one of the political injustices that African Americans went through was voting. African Americans were not allowed to vote. If they tried they would have to take a literacy test which they would have failed because they were not allowed to go to school to learn or they would just have gotten whipped. Another injustice was social. One social injustice that Africans Americans had to go through was that they were not allowed to eat at most restaurants. That caused African Americans to have sit-ins where they stayed in the restaurant knowing that they were not allowed to. Most of them got whipped or a bad punishment took place. Also I saw a picture that showed inequality where their where two men 1 white and 1 black drinking out of different water fountains a d 1 said whites only and the other 1 said colored only