The Reconstruction effort after the civil war left a certain legacy that would influence later events in history. The way Reconstruction was handled and its flaws paved a new direction for our country to follow.
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Discuss the political, social, and legal legacies of African American participation in Reconstruction.
Due: Sunday 11/16/08 by 11:59 p.m.
Monday, November 10, 2008
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The African American stand point in the Reconstruction era wasn't really apprecited. Socially, blacks were disconfirmed still yet as equals to most people. politically, they had hardly any say in what democracy there was back then because most of them couldn't vote. As for legacies, none were formatted to approve the hardship and endurance of tolerating domestic torture as they did. Many were spoken about but none took action or detail into forming legacy.
ReplyDeleteTo improve their lives many African Americans formed mutual aide societies, started businesses, strengthened churches, and built schools. Many African Americans believed to further blacks’ economic independence, which was believed to be the key to political and social and equality, was to seek practical training in trades and professions. Booker T. Washington discouraged blacks from protesting and said it would merely increase whites’ hostility. He claimed that if social progress was to be made that they would have to cooperate with the whites. Other black’s did not agree and protested anyway.
ReplyDeleteSome emancipated slaves quickly fled from the neighborhood of their owners, while others became wage laborers for former owners. Most importantly, African Americans could make choices for themselves about where they labored and the type of work they performed. This account book shows that former slaves who became free workers after the Civil War received pay for their work on Hampton Plantation in South Carolina.
ReplyDeleteThe African Americans really couldn't do a whole lot when it came to the reconstruction. they couldn't vote and their rights were not even close to what the whites had. a little bit later in the reconstruction the blacks sued to have the same right as the Whites. They did so because they were suposed to be American citizens, but because of the Black Codes they were very limited to what they could or couldn't do.
ReplyDeleteThey didnt have any say in political terms they were still outcasts for social and they didnt have legal rights to do anything
ReplyDeleteIn the reconstruction African Americans played a key role because a lot of the efforts during the recontruction were focused around black rights. During the reconstruction blacks did many things to try to improve there rights. They protested acts against them and banded together to form churches, schools, and financial aid groups. They also posted things in the newspaper to make sure that whites knew the struggles african americans went through. Another key goal was to increase the education (especially literacy) of African Amercans, so many universities and schools were built for African American education.
ReplyDeleteBlack were placed in political positions by whites from the north during reconstruction. Many were not educated enough for the jobs they were put into. They became mostly hated by the southern whites. It cast a cloud over the system, and seperated the blacks and whites even more. It was also one of the reasons for the formulation of the KKK. Then socialy contract wage laboring was attempted, but because the Freedmen’s Bureau failed to monitor the program, both the Bureau and labor system died out. Sharecropping was the next attempt. This form of labor placed a group of blacks on land owned by a head landowner. The blacks worked the land and crops and reaped the profits that their land generated. They over credited the blacks and one bad harvest put the blacks deep into debt. The North attempted to change the South’s labor system to better benefit blacks, but because of poor organization and enforcement policies, the African Americans were left at the mercy of upper class white men, almost identical to the conditions during slavery.
ReplyDeleteFor African Americans the new south was starting to look alot like the old south. African Americans had few economic oppotunities. Confronted by segregation and denied basic political and civil rights some African just left the south and moved north. 2 influential leaders rose up. Booker T. Washington founded an Institute in 1881 and Ida Wells Bernett offered different answers to discrimination questions. They believed that Africans should focus on economic independance. Also to not protest against discrimination. But many people disagreed and thought that they should protest. Ida Wells wrote an article protesting and in return whites burnt down the building. But her tiredless effort and many others efforts kept the public focused on the issue
ReplyDeleteWashington believed that African Americans should concentrate on economic advancement. To further blacks' economic independence-which he believed was the key to politicall and social equality-Washington urged blacks to seek practical training in trades and professions. He also discouraged them from protesting against discrimination, arguiing that such protesting merely increased whites' hostility. If economic and social progress was to be made, he claimed, blacks would need "the cooperation of the Southern whites" because "they control government and own the property". *African Americans built their own institutions, and they adopted several approaches to fighting discrimination.*
ReplyDeleteAfrican Americans had a large participation in the Reconstruction; politically, socially, and legally. Confronted but the segregation and denied basic political and civil rights, many moved to the Midwest or northern cities. Most stayed in the South however to improve their lives because that was where there roots were. So they formed mutual aid societies, started businesses, strengthened churches, and built schools. The main question though facing their leaders after 1877 was how to fight discrimination. Booker T Washington a former slave who founded Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute in 1881 and Ida Well-Barnett, a teacher and journalist offered different answers to the discrimination question. Washington believed that African Americans should concentrate on economic advancement. To further blacks’ economies independence- which he believed was the key to political and social equality. He urged blacks to seek practical training in trades and professions. Then he discouraged them on protesting against discrimination saying that it only increased whites’ hostility. He said that if anything was done they would need the southern whites to help them so he didn’t want any controversy. Ida didn’t really agree with Washington though she argued that blacks should argue against it.
ReplyDeleteThere were many different things that different African Americans did during reconstruction that helped guide the way to a more civil America for all who lived there, regardless of their skin color.
ReplyDeleteBooker T. Washington was one such person who believed that African Americans should concentrate on economic advancement. To increase blacks’ economic independence, which he believed was the first step to political and social equality, he urged Blacks to seek training in different trades and professions, in order to get a better understanding of everyday business and be able to compete and be up to date as compared to educated whites in the everyday world. He also discouraged them from protesting discrimination which he said would only increase whites’ hostility.
Ida Wells was another important figure in reconstruction. She was born to a slave family so she knew the differences that Blacks faced. She became a teacher at age 14 and soon lost that title when she began protesting discrimination and segregated schools. She became a journalist and wrote articles about her friends being lynched by whites. She also published a statistical book on lynching and through this she kept the public’s eye on the issue.
African Americans also formed mutual aid societies, started their own businesses, strengthened churches, and built their own schools since they were segregated from going to white ones.
Through the actions of many African Americans during Reconstruction, they were able to start ideas to create a more equal America that was more closely developed later on due to their actions and beliefs.
African Americans political participation in Reconstruction was that they didn't have much participation at all. They were left with pretty much no rights, which gave them few economic opportunities. The democrats tried their hardest to make it so they has as little rights possible. The biggest right they weren't allowed to have, was the right to vote.
ReplyDeleteAfrican Americans social participation in Reconstruction also didn't give them much of a voice. Alot of them moved north to avoid some of the unfairness. The ones who stayed decided to take things into their own hands, and formed mutual aid societies, started businesses, strengthened churches, and built schools.
As for legal legacies, African Americas decided to concentrate on economic advancement rather than how to fight the discrimination. Booker T. Washington had this idea, he believed it was the key to political and social equality. There were also the ideas of Ida Wells who voiced her opinion through her newspaper. Some didn't take kindly to this and burnt down her shop. She also had gotten fired from her teaching job when she began to protest.
Washington belived that African Americans should concentrate on economic advancement. He belived that blacks' economic independence was the key to political and socal equality. He urged blacks to seek pratical tarining in trades and professions. He also discouraged them from protesting against discrimination, arguing that such protesting merely increased whites' hostility. African Americans built their own institutions, and they adopted several approaches to fighting discrimination.
ReplyDeleteAfrican American's still didn’t have the same rights, like whites both politically and socially. But people reacted different. Some started to protest for more rights, others thought, that's not the best way to go. Some wanted to cooperate with the whites some didn't. Actually what happened was, that some African Americans started to build their own cities and communities, with schools, shops, churches and so like little separated cities were found.
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