The period in U.S history spanning from the end of reconstruction in the 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country is deemed to have been worse than in any other period after the American Civil War. During this time period, African Americans lost many of the gains in civil rights that had been achieved during Reconstruction. Anti-black violence, lynching’s, segregation, legal racial discrimination, and other expressions of white supremacy increased. The following images described below revel that the distinction is manifestly unjust when it comes to race, race relations, or black life in general during this time period.
Despite the progress African Americans made in the south after the fourteen and fifteen amendments, which freed slaves and allowed them many rights,
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Many black collages began to spring up given blacks a chance to get a higher education as well as possess the skills that were needed to get an excellent job. However, education did not come easy for these black southerners. There was still a power struggle and educated blacks were more of a problem then uneducated one. W. E. B. Dubois captured the unjust inequity in his assembled for the 1900 Paris Exposition. DuBois photographed a group or black college students, both male and female, that are working hard demonstrating their blacksmithing skills. As a white man walks around with a shot gun. This picture exhibits the discrimination, pressure and hatred that was felt among the black community. During this period scientists had a theory that blacks did not know how to be free. They believed that they were a criminal race and there was lack social structure because blacks were incompetent. Therefore, the presents of a gun were deemed necessary to keep order in the work place. However, this does not justify these actions. A black man would never be able to parade around while white students are