The Blacks were liberated from the clutches

Running head: AMERICAN HISTORY
AMERICAN HISTORY
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The amendment XIV in the Constitution of that took place in the year 1869, finally has
given full citizenship to the black men and they were also promised to be provided with equal
protection under the law. This led the Blacks to vote, to win the elected office and also to get
served on juries. However, after a time span of 10 years, it was seen that the federal troops
pulled out from the South thus returning to the usual white rule. As a result, the Republican
Party which was the Reconstruction’s champion and the rights of the freedmen had fallen
from the grasp of national power (Kachun, 2006).
The rights of the black people seemed to be in perils and over the next 20 years, it was
seen that indeed the blacks would almost lose everything that they attained over the past
years. What was worse is that the disavowal of their rights and their freedoms were made
lawful under a series of racist decrees known as the Jim Crow Laws (Chiles, 2020). “Jim
Crow” was a specific term derived only to address the black men. The meaning of this term
went through an evolution and finally it meant any law of the state passed in the South which
established diverse rules for blacks and the whites.
The 19th century was a period in the legal and political standing of the African
Americans that went through a radical transformation. The Blacks were liberated from the
clutches of slavery and they began to relish their rights as citizens themselves. The notion of
citizenship in America during the 1900s was a complicated experience and there were
multiple factors that contributed in such complication of the matter (McMillen, 1989). Firstly,
the United States was emerged out of a colonial revolution against a country that was
considered to be its mother country (Kelley, 1993). This was of Independence led to the
creation of American state and American nation simultaneously.

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This new nation inherited experiences and legacies from its own and thus constructed
the new nation on the basis of slavery, political and social hierarchy which were in turn based
on race, religious beliefs and more; basically, it was based on laws under Jim Crow. The
African- American resistance to this kind of racism flourished in the forms of protests. These
laws mandated the segregation not only racially but residentially as well. To end this legal
segregation, a movement known as the Massive Resistance was created. It was finally that the
African American stood up for their rights and one of the basic rights was to be able to live in
their choice of a land without being discriminated under Jim Crow laws. The Massive
Resistance was not the only protest that went around to end this segregation in terms of
citizenship; all across the land, there were various kinds of protests going on by the African
Americans to have them treated as humans and not some segregated creature with segregated
educational institution, residential place and more.