Reconstruction period after civil war

After the civil war the reconstruction period started it was the time where America became free also to grow. There was a lot of backlash in the period of reconstruction with hope and violence. April 9 1865 Robert e Lee surrendered to general Grant ending the civil war in Appomattox. When the for er slaves figured out they where free it was like a bird set free they either would freeze or strange but at that moment it did no matter they where free. Reconstruction is the process by which the American society

north south east west tried to come together to discuss land. What I found interesting is that  most of the southern white men didn’t want the war. Lincoln said the intelligent and the veteran African Americans should be allowed to vote and should have every right. John Wilkes booth who was in attendance at that meeting made sure that would be the last speech Lincoln would give. On April 14 1865 on good Friday John Wilkes booth kills Lincoln at a play and escapes.

Andrew Johnson sworn in at a hotel nearby Fredrick Douglas meets him and they hate each other. He says that he is not a friend of the black man. In November of 1865 passed laws that only applied to African Americans called the black codes. It did not last long a lot of the African Americans start to fight back on it. The ku klux klan created in 1866 in Tennessee was created to target African Americans and scare them away using threats that could be concluded to death. In April 1866 there was a call to veto the Black codes anyone born in the country are citizens.

May first 1866 south Memphis in the late afternoon the city black garrison was celebrating and was not on guard. That same afternoon a gang of white man started to shoot and kill many black men and women killing as many as they can they also raped and burned them alive. All but two African Americans soldiers where killed that afternoon it was a massacre.  With that every black church school and shop was burned to the ground word got around quick and people where sacred to go out and even vote. The African Americans found out a way to get around and always from the gangs to vote over a half a million African Americans votes that days and Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in to office.

This didn’t solve all the problems of slavery and racism there was still the ku klux klan terrorizing the African American community trying to break there will power to live. A lot of hatred towards African Americans are still around to day in 2015 a mass shooting happend at a church his name was Dillon rough and he murderd many African Americans because of the hatred towards the color of there skin.And in 2020 the George Floyd Black Lives Matter movement where a lot of people believe a cop intentionally killed a man by suffocation. The fight for equality that started reconstruction period is still around today working to give not just a singular race freedom but freedom for all.