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1865 Southern Black Codes
- No acsses to courts
- no black man on jury if black on trial
- No suit against whites
- No firearms
- Id and Travel Passes
- Cant own property
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Share Cropping
- White owns land- Black works and rents
- Black gains debts
- Can't move until debts paid
- Poor whites as well
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1955- "KKK"
4th phase
- Civil Rights Movement
- Till present time
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1866- "Private Drinking club"
1st phase
- Becomes "KKK" (Night Riders)
- Terrorist group
- Intimidate blacks
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4 phases of "KKK"
- 1866-68- First phase
- 1919- 2nd Phase begins
- 1930's ends with WWII
- 1955- until present time
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1919 "KKK"
2nd phase
WWI- blacks become empowered
-
1930's KKK
3rd phase
- 100,000 clans man in CA
- Blacks, catholics and Jews
- WWII ends activity
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13th Amendment
- 1865- Weeks after war ends
- Abolished slavery
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14th Amendment
- Product of R.R's 4/1866
- Defined american citizen
- No state can abridge privilges of citizen
- no state can deprive life, liberty, property without due process
- equal protection under law
- personal rights
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15th Amendment
- Last civil war amendment- 1870
- political rights
- state cannot stop citizen from:
- voting
- holding office
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1st Force act- 1867
- Marshall law in South
- State of emergency
- ID cards
- Curfews
- Night ambushes
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2nd force act 1871
- Still marshall law
- lynching increased
- violence still
- no trial of jury
- standing patrol
- Id cards
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1867- Impeachment
- Johnson impeacheed for firing cabinet member
- Johnson found not guilty
- not re-elected, dies few years later
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1877 End of reconstruction
- Last 4 states ratify amendments
- RR's began to retire
- New "modern" republicans form
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1868- Grants presidency
- 2 terms
- 1874 2nd- scandal in admin. "whiskey ring"
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1876 Democratic Candidate
*Disputed election of 1876*
- N&S work together to get candidate
- Tilden
- DA for NY
- Crime buster
- Hays was republican candidate
-
"Smoke Filled Room"
1879
- Compromise
- Tilden drops out
- Postmaster was democrat
- Hays sponsers "improvement plan" for South
- ends 2nd force act
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Supreme Court 1787
- 7 Judges
- Appointed
- in it for life
- safegaurd to rich and powerful
- insulated from public opinion
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1876 Cruikshank vs. US
- "Spirit of Law"
- S.C state must treat citizen fairly
- Private citizens can discriminate
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Civil rights cases (1886)
- Class action suit
- privately owned public facilities could now discriminate
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Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
- S.C ignores 14th amendment
- seperate but equal
- discriminate based on skin color
- racial segregation
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Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
- Marshall takes over case
- won after 2 hrs of deliberation
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Williams vs. Mississippi 1898
15th amendment
- 3 discriminatory acts
- Poll tax
- Literacy test
- residency req.
- grandfather clause
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