African Americans 1865 To 1900

From 1865 to 1900, African American freedoms were very limited socially. Black Codes said that African Americans could not marry anyone that is white. If someone that was black was not generally attracted to their own race or vice versa, they were unable to marry who they wanted to. The Ku Klux Klan burned many houses of African Americans as well as the white people that wanted to help them. If you were in any way positively involved with black people, the KKK would find a way to basically ruin your life. The Jim Crow Laws made African Americans have different schools than whites. Although there was another law passed saying that they had to have equal quality, African American students were left with poor lighting, old textbooks and packed rooms. Although there were many issues socially for black people, there were also many political issues for them. During the mid to late 1800’s, African Americans were still socially discriminated against. Black Codes were made as discrimination laws against them. These codes said that black people were not allowed to own weapons and they could not vote. This means that if an
Black Codes made it to where blacks could not own any land. If they could not own land, they could also not grow crops for their families or sell crops. The Jim Crow Laws also made it where blacks could have different hospitals, parks and railroads. The hospitals were very unsanitary that the African Americans had. The different parks and railroads made it so that blacks couldn’t hardly see white people and they were all very poorly made and operated. Real estate agents wouldn’t allow African Americans to buy houses. If they couldn’t buy houses, there was no way they could sleep as well as whites and they may not have been able to stay protected from the elements. It is very obvious that there was a large amount of struggles for equality between 1865 and