African American Civil Rights Movement Research Paper

African American Civil Rights movements is argued to have come a long way since the 18th century, but attaining full equality and fair treatment is still difficult in America. Some can argue that blacks in America are treated equal to everyone and that equality has fully been reached. But the truth is that this is far from the truth, blacks have faced many problems in America throughout time that they should never had to endure. In many ways the African American civil rights movement has accomplished so much since the 18th century, but many times they were hallow victories. Emancipation of Blacks to Freedman was a slow and painful process. As Michael B. McCoy stated in his article "Forgetting Freedom: White Anxiety, Black Presence, and Gradual
Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch's journal The Ex-Slave in the Post-Bellum South: A study of the Economic Impact of Racism in a Market Environment stated that "Historians have always argued that racism played an important role in the rebuilding of southern society and the restructuring of agriculture after the Civil War" (Randsom and Richard 134). With the rise of small farms rather than plantation style agriculture of Pre-Civil War Bellum South, the majority of farms were run by family labor. (Randsom and Richard) There was an "extreme prejudice of the whites against land ownership on the part of blacks" (Randsom and Richard 135). This came into the form of credit rating, where white money lenders denied loans to black freedmen, making it impossible to even start their own farms by buying land. So instead of being able to even start a farm. "Only 7.3 percent of all farms, containing 6.7 percent of all farmland, were owned by black operators" (Randsom and Richard 136,137). Those who could not get land either struggled to find jobs as a laborer on a meager salary or became sharecroppers where decisions on all things were made by a landlord (Randsom and Richard 138). "Discriminations in the markets for land and labor meant that black families had to support themselves with fewer acres per family member than did white families" (Randsom and Richard 142) Making a living in rural farms was a difficult for freed blacks, even with freedom, inequalities made life difficult and