Yesterday in class we learned about Marcus Garvey. He founded the UNIA and was for segregation. He wanted all African Americans to return to the motherland of Africa. This created muchg upset in the community. He believed that both the white and black races were pure and integration would make them both impure. Today in class we read poems and listened to music as well as looking at paintings. It was about the Great Migration. Many blacks decided the only way to escape the South was to leave the south. Millions of African Americans went North to look for freedom, jobs, and a place to raise their kids.

Yesterday in class there was an assembly. Therefore, we only had ten minutes of class. Today in class, we learned about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. Washington was a former slave that believed that African Americans would have to earn the right to be equal. He believed that there should not be equal education or voting rights and that African Americans should go to trade school and earn their equality by hard work and then respect. DuBois was a rich freemen that graduated from Harvard. He believed that African Americans and whites should be equal before the law in all aspects. They should have equal education, voting rights, and there should be African Americans in power.

Yesterday in class there was no school, so we didn't do anything.

Today in class we worked on our projects and drawing them so that we can record them on Thursday. My group decided that Reconstruction was a failure, because the South still remained separate from the South in some way.

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In class on Wednesday, we watched a video on Jim Crow Laws. These were laws that help back blacks from having the same rights as whites. They could not ride the same trains, live in the same areas, use the same restaurants or bathrooms, and even limited schools and jobs. These laws held back African Americans from practicing the rights they just obtained. They were used to keep whites in control. In class on Thursday, we learned about sharecropping. Wealthy farm owners would hire people to work on their plantations. In return, they gave them food, shelter in clothing. Most of the time, it was former slaves that had no other option but to work on these farms. Many of these workers were in debt to their planters and signed unfair contracts. As a result, the workers were often forced to stay at these plantations, working forever for their planters. This was much like slavery.

Today in class we read a really long obituary on Andrew JOhnson. He was the vice president to Lincoln, and then after Lincoln's assassination he became president. He was a Southern democrat that sympathized with the South after the Civil war. He was very forgiving to the South, which the Radical Republicans did not agree with. Yesterday in class we learned about the different plans for reconstruction. Lincoln's plan was forgiving to the South, but punishing at the same time. People had to pedge their allegiance to the Union before they got a pardon. In Johnson's plan, he was even more forgiving to the South. He gave almost everyone a pardon that asked, and alowed them to enter the Union easily. The Radial Republican's plan was the most punishing. It did not give pardons, and the South was under military rule. It didn't allow Confederate leaders to vote for a period of time, and madethem give equal rights to all.

Yesterday in class we went to the computer lab. We did two worksheets on black codes in the South. Because the slaves were now free, the south tried to punish them and segregate them as much as possible. There were different schools, bathrooms, restaurants, and many laws preventing African Americans from going into towns, owning property, and starting businesses.

Today in class, we learned about the 14th Ammendment, which got rid of all these black codes. It basically said that anyone born or naturalized is a US citizen, and that they have the rights to life, liverty, and property. They said that blacks could own property, and could own businesses, and could get married. The 14th Ammendment ensured African Americans the rights to live their life equal to whites.