After watching the "Reconstruction: America After the Civil War" video I learned many different and unique things that I was previously not aware of some of the civil injustice African-Americans had to deal with even after the Civil War. One major area that I noticed was that President Andrew Johnson didn't help any of this.
I have to say one of the shocking moments to me was when Andrew Johnson was discussed in the video. This moment was when he was at his own presidential inauguration at he was approached by Frederick Douglass and was greeted with a rude and offensive tone but also, showed some very racist and offensive behavior. He said to Douglass that he was unwilling to shake his hand and speak to him just like everybody else.
This would cause a major problem for African-Americans as treatment like this and still rules and laws about segregation made it harder for them to have any positions in power and also later in his career as he would make others beg for their jobs and themselves. Johnson happened to like this form of his views on his the lower classes.
Another area of the Reconstruction area I didn't know was the Freedman's Bureau. The organization consisted of the attempts to give some of the former plantation lands. I was not aware that this organization had existed and I was not aware that the organization focused on helping some of the southerners who were displaced following the Civil War. This occurred mainly with African-Americans since some of them had no home after the Civil War the organization would give them some land that they could live on.
I would learn after this that this would not last the longest due to Andrew Johnson's weak Reconstruction era policies this made the development and potential for African-Americans have a hard time advancing due to his views. This would continue to add years of hardships for African-Americans due to Andrew Johnson's feelings about African-Americans.
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Johnson
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