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In 1866 the Ku Klux Klan was created. They disguise themselves in white sheets and hoods, Klan members threatened, beat, and killed thousands of African American and the whites who supported them.

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By early 1866, legislatures in the Southern states had passed laws called black codes. Some black codes made it illegal of African Americans to own or rent farms.

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In 1866 it guaranteed that citizenship could not later be taken away by passing another law.

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In 1867 one way was by requiring a poll tax, a free required for voting.

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In 1867 the literacy test required potential voters to read and explain difficult parts of state constitutions or the federal Constitution.

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On july 9th, 1868 the 14th amendment said, this language protected the citizenship extended to African Americans by the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

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On February 3rd, 1870 the 15th amendment said, guaranteed that state and federal governments could not deny the right to vote to any male citizen ecse of "race, color or previous condition of servitude.

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In 1870 Hiram Revels became the first African American elected ti the United States Senate.

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In the 1870's the sharecropping system, landowners rented land to sharecroppers, or farmers.

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Settling of Nicodemus, KS "Pap Singleton"

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Settling of Nicodemus, KS "Pap Singleton"

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In 1877 a planned and gradual migration into Kansas of blacks from the three states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri.

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Settling of Nicodemus, KS "Pap Singleton"

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In the 1880's Jim Crow's laws required African Americans and whites to be seperated in segregation laws in Plessy v. Ferguson.

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In 1896 the Supreme Court upheld segregation laws in Plessy v. Ferguson. The case involved a Louisiana law that required separate sections on trains for African Americans an Whites.

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In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated classrooms denied children like Linda Brown an equal education.

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In 1865 the main purpose of Freeman's Bureau was to help African Americans adjust to life after slavery.

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On December 18th, 1865 the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

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On April 14th, 1865 as the president enjoyed a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head.