The struggle for equality that African-Americans faced in America after 1865

By 19ebiondi

  • the civil war was won

    the union army defeated the confederate army and freed 4 million slaves

  • black codes

    president andrew johnson made black codes, or laws that restricted freedom from african americans

  • presidential reconstruction

    presidential reconstruction began

  • 14th amendment

    it was broadened so that there could be equal protection

  • 15th amendment

    right to vote

  • jim crow laws made

    laws that legalized segregation

  • naacp founded

  • jim crow laws outlawed