African Americans had a hard life through out the Reconstruction time period and the United States civil rights movement. After the Civil war the Reconstruction happen. Aferican Americans fought for their freedom during the civil war. During reconstruction they were technically free but there were strict rules they had to follow, such as taking literacy test before they voted. This act was not fair what so ever, since the aferican americans had no education they were not able to pass the test; meaning they could not vote. Even after the Aferican Americans were free there was still a lot of racisim. No one treated them equal.
Before the Civil War African Americans were slaves. Being a slave was horrible. They were treated like crap and practically were not even counted as human. Slaves made no salary for the hard work they put into their landowners property. If they did not complete a task correctly they would get terribly punished which usually led to physically abuse and even death. During the civil war African Americans actually went and fought for their freedom and won! After the civil war African Americans became free and no longer were used as slaves.
Instead of being slaves during Reconstruction, the African Americans worked in share cropping. "Sharecroppers were agricultural wage laborers who raised crops on farm plots owned by large landowners in the post–Civil War era. Both landless whites and blacks worked as sharecroppers, although the majority of sharecroppers were African Americans."
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