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Black codes are passed by Southern States drastically restricting the rights of newly freed slaves
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Congress approves the 14th Amendment, granting African-Americans citizenship. The amendment also guarantees due process and equal protection under the law to all citizens
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Fifteenth Amendment gives blacks the right to vote
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race riots and other forms of terrorism go against black voters in South Carolina which includes the Hamburg Massacre where blacks were killed while celebrating the 4th of July.
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Booker T. Washington founds the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. The school becomes one of the leading schools of higher learning for African Americans, and stresses the practical application of knowledge
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white conservatives in Danville, Virginia, seize control of the local racially ntegrated and popularly elected government, killing 4 african americans in the process
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Plessy v. Ferguson: This landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South.
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in Wilmington, North Carolina, eight black Americans were killed as white conservative Democrats forcibly removed from power black and white Republican officeholders in the city. this was known as Wilmington riot