2. The concerns of the landowners were that they did not want to give the black people the land they deserved because they would lose money. They were determined to keep white supremacy in place. They did not want black to have any rights or have any success. Nothing has changed since the Reconstruction Era. African Americans were still getting beaten, murdered, and ostracized from society. They were still getting …show more content…
It would become extremely risky for African Americans to speak up about the issue at hand. They would get banned from their hometowns, get beaten, or even get murdered. It was a time where it was common for groups to come together and lynch African Americans. The unique thing was that over 300,000 African Americans, men and women, served in the military during World War I. Fighting for their country to be a safe place, but still were given no equal rights. Because of W.E.B Du bois’s declaration, African Americans formed a self-defense organization and started defending other African Americans who were getting harassed by white people.
4. The fact that White people were so cruel to African Americans is still crazy to me. They would not want them to have any kind of chance to have a life. To be able to just work and provide a life for their families. Instead they were treated like animals, but it was okay for them to put their lives on the line by defending this country. The same country that was not allowing them to have equal rights as everyone else. African Americans were fighting their own battle against white people. They were fighting for their lives, for their families, and mostly for their