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Thirteen Amendment
The 13th amendment terminated slavery and prohibited the existence of it within the jurisdictions of the USA. In December of 1865 the law to abolish slavery was ratified and added to the Constitution permanently. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 gave citizenship to African Americans. In addition, this Civil Law voided the state Black codes. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was an extension to the Freedman's Bureau which assisted with transformation from slavery into adjusting to freedom. The Freedman's Bureau was an approval made by Lincoln. However, due to Lincolns murder he was unable to witness this successful goal be achieved. -
The Fifteenth Amendment
This 15th amendment extended the rights to African American people to be able to vote. In addition, this amendment stated that it did not matter of the persons previous servitude. However, to disfranchise still against African Americans, they made it to were they had to take literacy test and pay poll taxes. Therefore, being able to vote for blacks still had some disadvantages that had to still be overcame. -
African American's "Great Migration"
When slavery was abolished in 1865, African-Americans began to deal with racism and violence even more harshly than before. African-American's began to migrate towards cities near the west, Northeast, and Upper Midwest (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Detroit, Pittsburg, Cleveland, and Indianapolis) to seek work in the businesses and factories there for better opportunities. -
(NAACP) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
W.E.B. Du Bois was the founder of NAACP. NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.The mission of this organization is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. -
Nineteenth Amendment
The 19th Amendment was created to allow all women to have the right to vote. It took many decades of different type of movements being acted upon in order to see this right through. Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul played a major part in the success of this law.
