In my opinion racism is different now then before because now African Americans have the same rights as white people. Before it was African Americans were kept as slaves. Then slavery was abolished but Jim Crow laws were put into place so African Americans couldn’t use the same water fountains or washrooms as white people. African Americans also couldn’t be treated by a white nurse and to have their children educated separately. Some more evidence is how Martin Luther King jr really changed the world. He did this by doing non violent protest and trying to get white people to see how African Americans were the exact same and not different in any way. Also with the Ku Klux Klan they would terrorize and hurt groups/people they didn’t like or agree with because they were unhappy with the way they and others were treated.