Today in life though, I still feel some tension between blacks and whites. This isn't the first time segregation and having different rights as a black person and white person has been going on; this has been happening since 1896. Since that time we had people like Martin Luther King fighting for us "colored" people's rights because white people had the ability to do basically whatever they chose to.

-1865:End of Civil War, The North won and slavery ended
-1865 to 1877: Reconstruction, During this period the North and the South tried to come back together. The North made laws that the South thought was unfair:
-1865:13th Amendment- This Amendment was to abolish slavery. the state protects
-1866:14th Amendment- This Amendment is stating no state can take away any right that
-1869:15th Amendment- This Amendment African Americans got the chance to vote, Voice their opinion.
-1896:Plessy vs.Fergauson- This court case started the law "separate but equal". This led to the Jim Crow law



All of these events took place to try and get rid of all the violence and hatred between whites and blacks. Some people wanted to be segregated but it was up to the rest that didn't want to fight and they fought hard and because of that today we get to hang out with friends of all colors, shapes and sizes.