Chronology
1865
Fall Southern state legislatures enact Black Codes.
18 December 13th Amendment outlaws slavery.
24 December KKK organizes.1866
9 April First Civil Rights Act becomes law.1868
28 July 14th Amendment provides ‘equal protection of the laws’ to all citizens.1870
30 March 15th Amendment grants black male suffrage.1875
1 March Civil Rights Act becomes law.1881
7 April Tennessee enacts the South’s first permanent Jim Crow law.1883
15 October Civil Rights Casesnullify congressional power to protect the freedmen.1890
1 November Mississippi becomes the first state after Reconstruction to disfranchise
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