Open gates for Blacks

This blog is for the historians looking at this period. I think the gates of opportunity are still open to blacks in America, after they were first opened in 1964. 

I see jobs open, professional schools still seeking blacks, I see excellent teachers going out of their way to help black students and I see access to management in countless companies that I deal with.

The issue of open or closed gates is historically relevant because after the U.S. Civil War, the victorious North sent 2,000 bureaucrats into the Confederacy to open up schools, jobs, voting and government positions to former slaves.

Over the ensuing decades the South invented Jim Crow,and the Klu Klux Klan and re-suppressed the Blacks.  By the time (1912) Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, was elected president he closed the final gate when he fired every black working for the U.S. Government (roughly 5,000 men).

The gates are open today, 144 years after the Civil War.