What Are The Benefits Of African American Education

Once the African Americans were freed they began to enjoy many of the simple things in life that we take for granted today, (Shultz. n.d.). They could go out and buy a dog if they wanted. They could hold meetings without having to worry about white people supervising them. They tried to become landowners. Many of them also moved around a lot, sometimes just to get away from the plantations where they once served as slaves, and others moved to looked for relatives and loved ones who had been sold to other slave holders. The newly freed African Americans began to build schools to educate their children as well as themselves. They wanted to learn to read and write in order to be able to participate in the politics of the new nation. They began to build their own homes and get married. African American men also took the females out of the fields and put them in the home were the society felt that women should be. While the blacks were still poor, many of the black women still had to work, but they became domestics instead of field hands. Many black people began to establish black churches and they stopped participating in the mixed or white congregations. "The black church became the first institution fully controlled by African Americans", (Shultz. n.d.).
n.d.). They began to demand to be allowed to vote in the nations elections. They would often hold mock elections to teach other blacks how to vote and to demostrate to the white population that they had a deep desire to participate in the new American political process. They were met with plenty of opposition, however. The Ku Klux Klan formed in 1865 and was determined to establish white dominance in the South once again and to keep the newly freed slaves from exerting what they felt was too much