According to sources such as the government of the United States history page, the life in the <em>Southern states</em> during the Reconstruction period was complicated and had its ups and downs for the southerners. The main problem was the difficulty to design a different labor system that could substitute enslavement. African Americans were used to work in the fields of their owners, and after abolition, they had to start a new form of making a living on their own.
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham.
