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The Reconstruction of the Amendments
During Reconstruction, three amendments were added to the Constitution. THe Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment made fomer slaves citizens, and the fifteenth Amendment gave African American men the right to vote. -
Presidential Reconstruction
In 1865, President Johnson allowed the Southern states to reconstruct themselves. Most enacted black codes that severely restricted the rights of former slaves -
Congressional Reconstruction
Congress took control of Reconstruction in 1867. Federal troops were sent to the South to oversee the establishment of state governments that were more democratic -
Reconstruction Governments
The South's first biracial state governments established a public school system and outlawed racial segregation. But these governments were bitterly opposed by white terrorist groups like the KKK. -
The Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was when Martin Luther King Jr. became the face of the civil rights movement for the african americans. This boycott was where the black people did not ride the public buses for a day. instead of riding the bus people set up carpools, some walked, rode their bikes, and some even hitchhiked. -
The SCLC and The SNCC
These two groups helped organize nonviolent civil rights actions. The Souther Christian Leadership Conference was led by Martin Luther King Jr. It played a major role in the Birmingham campaign and other events. The Student nonviolent Coordinating Committee organized sit0ins and engaged in the other forms of civil disobedience. -
School Desegragation
This is where nine teenagers integrated in to a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. there were around 2,000 whites students at this high school and only 9 black students. One day the there was a mob of the white parents that force the mayor to get help from President Eisenhower. The outcome was that every black student had to have a personal soldier that would walk to class with them during school -
Sit Ins
Sit Ins were where mostly African Americans would sit in segregated facilities and would sit there and not move or buy anything. This originated in North Carolina and grew bigger and bigger. it got to a point that the African Americans would be arrested for sitting in a place they weren't supposed to be there. -
James Meredith Enrolls at the University of Mississippi
James Meredith was an american veteran that fought in the Korean war and he wanted to go to college but they denied him. After that he turned to the NAACP to go to court. The Mississippi governor Ross Barnett vowed to never let a black person into any college. The the President JFK wanted to uphold the law the same as Brown did. Meredith then secretly got onto the campus, then word got out and then there was a riot and two people died. Then JFK also gave James Meredith a personal body guard. -
March on Washington
A quater of a million people marched in Washington,D.C., in August 1963 to demand jobs and freedom. The highlight of this event was Martin Luther King Jr.'s I have a dream speech. -
Jim Crow Laws
Reconstruction ended as part of the Compromise of 1877. Once Democrats regained control of the state governments in the South, They passed Jim Cows laws that segregated blacks from whites in public life. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy vs Ferguson that segregation was constitution under the doctrine of separate but
