a long history of backlash in America. #blackhistory #ushistory #hiddenhistory #learning #fyp

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[00:00:00]The immediate aftermath of the Civil War is the violence of a social system that has collapsed and no one knows what the new etiquette is going to be.

[00:00:09]Everyone knew how a slave was supposed to behave, but nobody knew how a former slave was supposed to behave.

[00:00:14]So after emancipation and a failed reconstruction, our ancestors survived under Jim Crow and the sundown infrastructure. And by the [music] 1960s, we had enough.

[00:00:26]Our ancestors fought hard for our civil rights. [music] By the late 1960s, laws changed, right?

[00:00:33]Segregation was outlawed and voter discrimination became illegal. On paper, it looked like the country was turning a corner. But laws didn't change overnight and give us equality or [music] equity.

[00:00:47]As a matter of fact, they adapted to just the opposite. [music]