Community
What became the center of African American communities?
Churches
How did African Americans celebrate their newfound freedom?
Parties, dances, and picnics
The tension between lighter and darker skinned African Americans
What was sometimes reflected in the convention debates?
Sharecropping
What was a common form of labor in the late 1960s among former slaves?
Who had more rights in the African American Community?
African American men
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Allowed slaves in the Confederate states to be free
Civil equality and right to vote
What was demanded at the mass meetings and parades?
Self-sufficient farmers
What did most African Americans want to be?