Don't pat yourself or others of our race on the back too hard. I encourage you to spend 20 minutes on this website below. For a lot of people the official end of slavery didn't really change things a lot.
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org
To quote "The formal abolition of slavery did nothing to overcome the harmful ideas created to defend it, and so slavery did not end: it evolved."
Good video
https://fox4kc.com/2019/05/23/unusual-alliance-hopes-clay-county-shares-its-dark-history-with-lynching-memorial/Edited by MNTIGER at 23:46:11 on 11/10/19