Post #3

I believe once the African Americans finally realized they were needed for more than just picking cotton and being a slave to the white man led up to the Civil Rights Movement. They were now needed to do the work the whites didn't want to do and also were dependents to the white man for their businesses. Finally African Americans were considered citizens of the United States.
Even though the Constitution and Jim Crow laws were made up, African Americans were still treated like dirt, lynching was still happening to innocent African Americans. I think when the lynchings happened it was the fear in the white man that the African American people were going to take control. The pitiful part about the lynching is that the whites had no remorse for what they were doing to innocent African Americans.
In the beginning of World War II African Americans could only be cooks and clean up after the soldiers which were of course the white man. Before the war ended though the African American people gained their right to be soldiers and fight for their country, the United States.
The way African Americans got treated by the people over seas was like they were kings on a thrown compared to how they were treated back in the United States. Could you imagine how they felt?
African Americans were still treated like trash when they returned from World War II. After so many brutally beatings, lynchings, and so fourth happening they gained all their rights and were treated equally.