Welcome back to the Virginia Museum of history and culture we are here talking about the struggle for black equality, this explores the period from the end of the civil war, which ended slavery in the United States , through 1950. This was a. That witnessed both progress and backlash. For black americans. After the civil war, black virginians and americans embrace the new opportunities. In the form of access to education, new civil rights, political participation, building new communities, starting new businesses and so forth. On one hand black lives of flourished under the new promises afforded , black people also began to suffer backlash from white establishments that wanted to reassert power and supremacy over people of color. At the same time that we see amazing strides, we also see regress in the form of distant friend and American Society. We will look at a few stories that exemplify that push and pull , the session starts with that reconstruction and key legislative amendments t