Exhibition titled determine, the 400 your struggle for black equality. This second section explores the period from the end of the civil war after the civil war, which ended slavery in the united states, through 1950. And this was a period that witnessed both progress and backlash for black americans. After the civil war, as black virginians and americans embraced new opportunities in the form of access to education, new civil rights, political participation, building new communities, starting to businesses and so forth as on the one hand black lives flourished, under the new promises afforded by freedom in american society. Black people also began to suffer backlash from white establishment that wanted to reassert its power, its sense of supremacy and its control over people of color, and at the same time that we see amazing strides and black process, we also see regress in the form of disenfranchisement, and legalized. Segregation in american. Society so, we will look at a few storie