Imagine living in a world where people will despise you for something as diminutive as your skin color; Where people would deny you of medical attention even at urgent times as in life or death situations because they do not like people of “your kind”. In the autobiography, The Soul of Black Folk written by William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois , Du Bois talks about the struggles of being black in America, the right way to go about being black in America, and how black people resisted hating
The African-American Civil Rights Movement refers to the post-Civil War reform movements in the United States that was aimed at eliminating racial discrimination against African Americans, and improving educational and employment opportunities, while establishing electoral power. During this period between 1865 and 1895 there was a tremendous change in the fortunes of the black community after the elimination of slavery in the South. In 1865, two important events in the history of African Americans