Discrimination Against African Americans

African Americans have a history of suffering and discrimination; with the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement Americans should heed the idea that all lives matter. In this research paper i will be talking about how slavery started and how African Americans were treated during slavery. I will also be talking about how slavery ended and how racism in America began, with a little bit about the “KKK” and how they treated us African Americans. Another thing I will talk about is white Supremacy and present day racism, how white people think they are better than African Americans and how racism today isn't as bad as racism back in the day was. I believe that African Americans shouldn't have gone through slavery or shouldn’t have been told that

“The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.”(History.com Staff) Even though the Civil War had stopped slavery it didn’t stop racism towards African Americans. Racism towards African Americans was mostly in the south where they were segregated from the whites, they couldn’t use the same bathroom as them or water fountain. They also couldn’t go threw the same entrances as the whites they had to go thru the back door of a place they were going into.White people would call African Americans “Niggers”, if an African American man was accused or even caught doing something to a white women or talking to them they would either be beaten or killed. The Ku Klux Klan also known as the “KKK” started in 1866 and was in about every southern state. The “KKK” would come out at night and kill African Americans, they would beat them, and hang them. They would wear white gowns with white hoods, and they would torch African Americans houses or an a bus for blacks. The “KKK” “members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders”.(History.com Staff) Also members of the KKK would not get arrested for the killing or assault of African