TERM PAPER Life of African Americans in the period after the civil war was stimulatingly difficult. Among the host of challenges were the Black codes which made their life no better than it was before the civil war. The Congress promised to emancipate African Americans from slavery, but it appeared as if blacks were still deprived of their basic rights. They still did not achieve the status equal to that of the whites. During this …showed first 75 words of 1288 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1288 total…honesty and more of indiscriminate flattery. The black men of the post emancipation south were completely aware of the importance of voting. It was a way by which they could choose representatives who would better their conditions of living and work towards their welfare. W.E.B Du Bois put this insight into their minds and made them realize that they should rebel against servitude and fight for equal rights and status as the whites.