When talking about the Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement there's a few things that are different. During the Reconstruction Affrican-American's were still slave. The Northern Goverment made there semi-aforts to stop slavery and give them equal rights, but it did not work. Slaves even after being "freed" where still treated as being less than the white people. The Northern law had no affect on the South, because they did not accept them. After they finally did give them there semi-freedom they could not leave there masters farm. They were murdered in horrible ways, for no reason at all. At this time that would be considered an important even. People traveled from far just to see African-Americans being killed in the middle of a public place. After that, the poeple that murdered them would shop up there bodies and sell them as suveniors. To top it all off, they did not know how to read or write so it did not make to much sence of trying to leave the farms where they worked at.
During the Civil Rights Movement, not many things changed. They were still not treated equaly, but had a few more rights than in the Reconstruction. African-Americans where able to go to school and to be paid for working. Yet, there was a seperation in public places. African-Americans and White people had different places where to sit, eat and work. Many where still murdered even though they were freed considred to be equal.
Some of the similarities varied. Many people did want to help the African-Americans to be free. Many of the main people that wanted to stop descrimination where shot and killed. The poeple that killed them were against African-Americans having equal rights. Even though they had some freedom they were killed for no reason. Both lasted many years. Under the states federal goverment they were all the things that would happen to the African-Americans were not as important as the White people's buisness. They would ignore the unfaire treatment that the African-Americans would endore.
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