Living in the South Growing up in the South during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s as an African American was tough. As a person of color you suffered a lot of racial profiling, discrimination and of course racism throughout the south just because they wanted change and were tired of being treated poorly by white people. Superiority meant a lot to whites then; they would not allow the blacks to take over in any way. So, blacks and people known as minorities took the opportunity to try to make a change because their rights had not been protected as the first amendment intended. Many people were threatened, beaten and harassed by a group known as the Ku Klux Klan who sought to fight for what was right such as the right to vote. Even though they fought to make their voices heard, it was worth it, even if it meant putting their lives in danger. The South was not easy, especially for minorities living in America, as Edesha said, whites swore even before Reconstruction that we blacks would not only know our place, but would stay there forever. This showed that after the abolition of slavery some whites did not want to make a change in society according to the law, some whites still wanted to be separated from all blacks and those who did not fit their description. It seems that white people were afraid that one day African Americans would take over and treat them the same way they were treated, and this was mental, verbal, and physical abuse just because of their skin color and ethnicity. The right to vote was one of the main problems that blacks faced because those who were in charge of the electoral poll made things difficult for blacks. For example, they…middle of paper…prevent blacks from mixing socially with whites, from voting, and from thriving financially. This proved; the group didn't want change. For example, they try to keep blacks away from whites, voting and getting rich by using violence as their number one weapon against minorities. It seemed that the whites were not afraid to commit any crime because they knew there would be no punishment, also all the supremacists in the court were under all the white males. It's sad how the justice system has worked for blacks and whites. According to the Constitution, it was stated that all men are equal, but the system was full of them because anyone who was not of white origin was treated unfairly with cruel punishments. Sometimes African Americans didn't even have a clue when they were accused of a crime, they were simply found guilty and punished for a crime they probably didn't commit.