- Apr 24, 2003
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Pan-Africa,
You have said something very interesting. You wrote:
After the Civil War slavery was declared illegal (13th amendment), blacks were granted citizenship in the 1866 Civil Rights Act, which was reinforced along with voting rights in (14th & 15th amendments). The Civil Rights Act of 1873 made racial discrimination in public places illegal. For a very brief period blacks in America used their new found freedom to vote, run for political offices (many of the 1st black congressmen like Hiram Revels came from this period), and to educate themselves (the 1st Black Colleges were built during this time). This golden age started to crumble in the late 1880's when a white backlash arose to criticize black advancement at the expense of whites.
You also said:
Events of the past 20 years seems so similar to those of 100 years past that it isn't even funny.
Here is my point, to add to what you have said:
The next thing that happenned in America after reconstruction and the golden years after slavery was whites began GOING TO WAR against Black Americans.
The begining of the 1900's to about 1920 were the FIRST YEARS that the LYNCHING of BLACKS outnumbered the lynching of whites.
Whites would also attack black towns, black soldiers, black churches were burned down. Terrible laws were enacted or enforced to harm Black People.
Blacks in BLACK TOWNS would have to watch daily to make sure they were off the streets by a certain time because whites would come nightly to attack any blacks caught outside.
All the gains we had made were erased. We barely had our freedom and that only technically.
Hmmmm..........Will all of history repeat itself or just part of it? Interesting also that the book Backlash about the women's rights movement also found a similar pattern of "one step forward, two steps back".
You have said something very interesting. You wrote:
After the Civil War slavery was declared illegal (13th amendment), blacks were granted citizenship in the 1866 Civil Rights Act, which was reinforced along with voting rights in (14th & 15th amendments). The Civil Rights Act of 1873 made racial discrimination in public places illegal. For a very brief period blacks in America used their new found freedom to vote, run for political offices (many of the 1st black congressmen like Hiram Revels came from this period), and to educate themselves (the 1st Black Colleges were built during this time). This golden age started to crumble in the late 1880's when a white backlash arose to criticize black advancement at the expense of whites.
You also said:
Events of the past 20 years seems so similar to those of 100 years past that it isn't even funny.
Here is my point, to add to what you have said:
The next thing that happenned in America after reconstruction and the golden years after slavery was whites began GOING TO WAR against Black Americans.
The begining of the 1900's to about 1920 were the FIRST YEARS that the LYNCHING of BLACKS outnumbered the lynching of whites.
Whites would also attack black towns, black soldiers, black churches were burned down. Terrible laws were enacted or enforced to harm Black People.
Blacks in BLACK TOWNS would have to watch daily to make sure they were off the streets by a certain time because whites would come nightly to attack any blacks caught outside.
All the gains we had made were erased. We barely had our freedom and that only technically.
Hmmmm..........Will all of history repeat itself or just part of it? Interesting also that the book Backlash about the women's rights movement also found a similar pattern of "one step forward, two steps back".