HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Reconstruction Era, White Supremacy
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Dubois: wrote the souls of black folk (1903)- the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line. 14th amendment (ratified 1868): prohibited states from violating citizens" rights, guaranteed equality before the law. 15th amendment (ratified 1870): guaranteed the right of all america male citizens to vote regardless of race. Designed to create a system of slavery in perpetuity; when black codes were established in southern states, their purpose was to control labor of black men and women. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting african americans" freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. Political tension on how to deal with the freed men was a u. s. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the. South during the reconstruction era of the united states, which attempted to change society in the former confederacy.
