to gain rights/equality for african americans
The impact from the Civil War for civil rights gave former slaves their freedom, but soon after, segregation took its place and it wasn't until the 1960s that African-Americans really got their rights for good.
The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten and informal deal that was used to settle the U.S. presidential election in 1876. The side who lost the most from this compromise were the Southern Democrats.
When the 15th amendment was ratified, it gave African Americans men the legal right to vote as a United States citizen. The southern states fought against allow the men to vote until the Voting Rights Act was put into place.
passage of Jim Crow legislation by some southern states
The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the US Constitution gave citizenship and voting rights to African-Americans.
Mostly the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the US constitution.
the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Grants citizenship and protects the rights of African Americans.
With the Reconstruction Amendments
With the Reconstruction Amendments
It gave citizenship and the rights and protections of a citizen to African Americans.
With the Reconstruction Amendments
With the Reconstruction Amendments
reconstruction
reconstruction
There were a number of African American Civil Rights Movement that were meant to fight for the freedom of the African Americans. One of the leaders of the movement was Martin Luther King Jnr.