Three Amendment King Analysis

After the end of the Civil War, slavery was finally abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment but had left the South in complete ruins, and with four million newly freed slaves that were homeless, jobless, and illiterate. Reconstruction was then introduced to reunite the South with the Union and assist the newly freed slaves with adjusting to a new society while also protecting them like the citizens they had become. The Reconstruction had successfully rebuilt the damaged cities and transportation of the South, but failed to do anything about the racial injustice that was presenting itself, the crippling economy, and the lack of political power in the South.
Racial injustice wasn’t new to the Reconstruction era, but nothing was done about it. Three
King is seeing what is occurring during this time of Reconstruction and she wants a solution to the racial injustice especially when she is not getting it from the government. The African Americans put their hope and trust in the government when the Reconstruction began, but due to King’s tone, one gets the sense that she is frustrated and has lost all hope in the government who would allow ¨negro-hating white man¨ to continue to torture them after the war has been fought. The law couldn’t even protect the negroes from the ¨negro-hating white man.¨ According to document 2: The Fourteenth Amendment, it states ¨All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States… nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.¨ The Fourteenth Amendment was part of the three amendments that were meant to provide the African Americans with a new opportunity.