African American Civil Rights 1865-1900 Federal Involvement
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- African American US Civil Rights 1865-1900
- Key Amendments
- 13th Amendment (1865)
- Bannig of slavery
- 14th Amendment (1868)
- Gave AA's citizenship
- 15th Amendment (1870)
- Right to vote
- 13th Amendment (1865)
- Supreme Court Cases
- Slaughterhouse Case (1873)
- declared the 14th Amendment protected national civil rights but not state civil rights
- 1883: The KKK Act and 1875 Civil Rights Act declared unconstitutional
- Plessy Vs. Ferguson (1896)
- 'Seperate but equal', approval of segregation
- Cuningham Case (1899)
- confirmed segregation was legal in education
- Slaughterhouse Case (1873)
- Civil Rights Act
- 1866: extended the rights of emancipated slaves
- 1971, the KKK act
- Banned violent intimidation
- Repelaed in 1883
- 1875: prohibited discrimination in 'public accomodations
- Repeaked in 1883
- Presidents
- Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
- Freed the slaves but not necessarily pro-AA
- Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
- Racist
- Attempted to veto many CRAs
- Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
- 1869 and 1871 signed bills promoting voting rights and prosecuting Klan leaders
- Signed 1875 Civil Rights Act
- Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
- Vetoed bills repealing Civil rights enforcement 4 times, then signed one
- Compromised to gain southern democratic support
- ended reconstruction by removing troops, and the form
- Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
- Key Amendments
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