Problems African Americans faced in order to obtain equality

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.