White employers and the Ku Klux Klan threatened African Americans. Yup, I took US History and learned about this tragic part of the civil rights era. The KKK would beat and threaten them with weapons and set the buses on fire with the protesters inside the buses and block their path so they would burn to death within the bus.
I'm assuming you are talking about the American Civil War. There is still a certain level of racism in the South that was heightened by the Civil War and the Southern economy is not as good because they are still behind industrially because they relied so heavily on cotton around the time of the war. Also punishments from Reconstruction and the increased industrialization in the North that occurred as a result of the war has and will continue to hurt the South.
It was outlawed in 1804, and it not only declared the colonies free of Britain but it helped to inspire Vermont to abolish slavery in its 1777 state constitution. Hope this helps.
It was one of the first revolutions of its kind to occur non-violently, making it 'glorious'.
