Discuss the struggle for black equality as soon as the slaves were emancipated.The struggle for black equality began as soon as the slaves were...

If the scope of this question is to analyze different notions of the social and political good for African- Americans post Civil War, I think we begin to see much in the way of change and evolution.  Following Appomattox, the reality for African Americans was how to achieve "the dream" during the Plessy vs. Ferguson era of segregation.  This was marked by Reconstruction initiatives that sought to limit the economic, political, and social notion of the good for African-Americans.  The vision of how African- Americans were to view consciousness could be seen in terms of the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and in this manner, came out the debate of assimilationism and cultural activism.  This means that would the concept of color be something to be overcome or something to be acknowledged.  Within this paradigm, the dream for African- Americans were poised between these ends.  The post World War II predicament for African- Americans became much of the same, as the drive for Civil Rights demanded the same questions as to what constitutes "the dream" for people of color, in particular, African- Americans.  The different thinkers of the time period sought to articulate different visions of the social, economic, and political good.  Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Stokely Carmichael all spoke of different visions of "the dream" for African- Americans in the Civil Rights Era.