1. The Situation of African-Americans in America
The constitution which promised that all men are created equal" was made only for Whites. ... Many Whites, who after the end of slavery had lost everything, found it hard to believe that their former slaves should now be equal to them. ... The Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws were set up to limit the movement and rights of the Blacks. ... The fight for equal rights continued. ... His father was the prominent minister of the Ebenezer Baptist Church at Atlanta's Auburn Avenue, and also a well respected business man, who took an active part in the fight for equal rights and therefore was a ...
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