African Americans were free in 1865 due to the new chapter in the American history that was opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865 and was implemented. It abolished slavery in the United States, and with the end of the war, four million African Americans were free.
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African-Americans who lived in the North between 1865 and 1900 generally faced wretched living conditions.
In the south there were no "free African Americans ". All African Americans in the southern states were slaves. Therefore, slaves owners didn't create problems for free African Americans because they never met a free slaves.
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Abraham Lincoln became the 1st President to include African-Americans in his Inaugural Day Parade in 1865.
The situation of African Americans in the US changed drastically from 1865-1970. The African Americans were freed from slavery and were able to be free. Even though they were free they were still treated poorly but not as bad as when they were enslaved. There was still a lot of discrimination and the Civil Rights Acts wasn't passed until 1964. The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination and segregation in the U.S.