In 1865, after the emancipation of slaves and abolishment of slavery in America, there were laws known as the black codes and they were designed to prevent newly freed blacks from having the full rights of citizens and to restore as much of the labor and racial controls of slavery as possible. The first of these laws were passed in South Carolina and Mississippi and were quickly picked up by other Southern states sharing the same goal. the black codes were distributed through the southern states and wasn’t really handled until the Republican Congress seized control of Reconstruction efforts and forced changes in policy. So because they required new constitutions and governments in the southern states, Congress did manage to abolish some black codes and congress also passed legislation to protect the rights of freed slaves ; including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and proposals for the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. These legislation attempted to guarantee full citizenship and rights for blacks.
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These laws reintroduced the inequality that ultimately resulted in black segregation until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. (need transition). In the 1860's and 1870's hundred of schools were burned down in protest of black children being educated, 40 schools in Tennessee alone. The KKK not only burned schools but lynched teachers and and the students they taught, even if they were white. The KKK also whipped blacks if they were seen reading a newspaper or if they had a single book in their homes. As if education wasn't hard enough with laws such as "If there are 15 colored children in a school district, there may be a separate school built for them" and " other ridiculous segregation laws, there were only 3 colleges for blacks before the civil war. However in after the emancipation proclamation there were 23 black colleges founded in 12 different states. Ruby Bridges was six years old when she was one of the first African American students to enroll at a previously all white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960. The previous year she had
These laws reintroduced the inequality that ultimately resulted in black segregation until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. (need transition). In the 1860's and 1870's hundred of schools were burned down in protest of black children being educated, 40 schools in Tennessee alone. The KKK not only burned schools but lynched teachers and and the students they taught, even if they were white. The KKK also whipped blacks if they were seen reading a newspaper or if they had a single book in their homes. As if education wasn't hard enough with laws such as "If there are 15 colored children in a school district, there may be a separate school built for them" and " other ridiculous segregation laws, there were only 3 colleges for blacks before the civil war. However in after the emancipation proclamation there were 23 black colleges founded in 12 different states. Ruby Bridges was six years old when she was one of the first African American students to enroll at a previously all white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960. The previous year she had