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The freedman's Bureau helped with the transition of freed blacks by providing assistance with education and labor wages.
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Klu Klux Klan was developed to keep African Americans from exercising their rights to freedom using drastic measures such as killings, burning homes and whippings
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In an effort to enforce the 14th amendment which provided equal rights and equal protection from the law congress would only allow those states that supported this to join the union
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To piggy back off the 14th amendment congress gave African Americans the right to vote with the 15th amendment
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African Americans were elected to political positions. In Mississippi Hiram Revels was the first African American Senator elected to a senate position in 1870.
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Between 1890-1915 many freed African Americans fled the discrimination of the south and headed toward the cities that included New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Chicago
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Niagara movement was formed in an effort to obtain social, political, and economic equality for African Americans. This group formed the foundation for the development of NAACP.
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Harlem renaissance period provided African Americans with a renewed pride through the development of music and poetry
