Similarities And Differences Between The Struggles Of African Americans

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There are several similarities and differences between the struggles of the African Americans and Native Americans. The list is long, however, I will point out a few that I feel to be the root of the struggles that these groups continue to have present day. Immediately after the civil war, the life of the African American began to improve. The African Americans were granted citizenship, protection from discrimination, and male suffrage. In contrast, the Native American condition declined as the United States Army herded the last great tribes onto federal reservations. “The Indian tribes, attacked, subdued, starved out, had been divided up by putting them on reservations where they lived in poverty”. (524) Reservation life brought with it horrible