Hug a Tree "First Arbor Day". The Bell is Ringing! The Brooding Midwest? The Fires of "Fire in the Midwest". The Other San Francisco Treat! The government allowed for the separation of services, facilities, accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines as long as the quality of the services and facilities were equal.
Under this legal doctrine racial segregation was not considered a breach of the Fourteenth Amendment. Separate but equal came into force as a result of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy versus Ferguson in It was overturned by Brown versus the Board of Education in Homer Plessy March 17, — March 1, Plessy v.
Ferguson U. The Supreme Court voted with one absence due to a death in the family that Plessy's rights were not violated and laid the foundation for expanding segregation. Plessy versus Ferguson as well as "separate but equal" would remain U. It abolished slavery in the United States. The amendment addresses issues of equal protection and due process under the law. The amendment formally defines citizenship in the United States and protects citizens civil rights from being denied by the federal and state governments.
Ratification of the amendement was a requirement for readmission into the Union and the amendment itself was bitter contested before it was finally adopted.
It prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race. Though federal legislation passed during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant in took aim at the Klan and others who attempted to interfere with Black suffrage and other political rights, white supremacy gradually reasserted its hold on the South after the early s as support for Reconstruction waned.
Racism was still a potent force in both South and North, and Republicans became more conservative and less egalitarian as the decade continued.
In —after an economic depression plunged much of the South into poverty—the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives for the first time since the Civil War. When Democrats waged a campaign of violence to take control of Mississippi in , Grant refused to send federal troops, marking the end of federal support for Reconstruction-era state governments in the South. In the contested presidential election that year, Republican candidate Rutherford B.
Hayes reached a compromise with Democrats in Congress: In exchange for certification of his election, he acknowledged Democratic control of the entire South. A century later, the legacy of Reconstruction would be revived during the civil rights movement of the s, as African Americans fought for the political, economic and social equality that had long been denied them. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present.
One of the most important aspects of Reconstruction was the active participation of African Americans including thousands of formerly enslaved people in the political, economic and social life of the South.
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