What Are The 13 Amendments To African American Rights

After the civil war the African American seem that their tragic life has ended. An amendments has pass for the formerly enslaved people. This was the thirteen amendments which enslave the African American. And the 13 and 14 amendment gave equal treatment and voting rights to the African American. But some states pass laws that limit the African American rights. They were still being discriminated all because the government aloud it. African American were limited socially from 1865 to 1900. Southern state pass laws that increase racial discrimination after the armaments has been pass. Like in Plessy v. Ferguson, the court felt that segregation is lawful. As long that white and blacks were given equal quality that it was legal to separate people by their race. But we all know that the treatment and services given to African American were not the same given to the whites. For example African American rarely got jobs they could not even get a high class job like white folks did. African American were not able to get marry to white or even have the same treatment in school. The white student had

Poll taxes were made to keep African American from voting which were taxes that would have to pay to be able to vote and they were usually expensive that African American were not able to afford it. Also they made literacy test which some states limited the right to vote if they could not pass the literacy test. White election official was the one who say if they even pass the test or if they did not. Which we all know that most of them would always say no they did not pass the test. Also to only aloud the white to vote many southern states made the grandfather clause. This was that anyone grandfather have been eligible to vote before January 1, 1867 was able to vote. This specific date was pick because before that time freed slaves did not have the right to vote. All this made African American politically