The Civil War cannot be viewed as the beginning of the end of racism in America. Despite many advances in civil liberties from the time of Reconstruction to the dawn of the mid-twentieth century, the sentiment of the American people was not fully represented in the legislation of the time because what is right is not always popular. The southern states were especially against the profound changes the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments would render on their livelihood.
Despite the major impact of white and black relations on American society, the term colored would more aptly apply to the relations within the United States as a whole. In the South, whites were extremely abusive of those colored black. In the West, whites were leery of a
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