While reading chapters seven and eight there was a lot of information on how segregation and unequal treatment/opportunities took the place of slavery when it was abolished. I discussed this same thing in my American Studies class, how during reconstruction there was a period in which Black people were almost treated normally before that quickly changed to the unfair treatment, they would have to endure for basically the next hundred years. When slavery was banned, segregation took its place and when segregation was banned, prejudice took its place. Even after Brown v. Board of Education and people and places could no longer use the excuse “separate but equal” there was still such racism and bias when it came to offerings and opportunities. One thing that I was reminded of which I had learned about in high school was also how poorly the governments treated Black neighborhoods from redlining and not giving people loans on houses, to outright destroying parts of them to make room for whatever project they might have needed space for.
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