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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reconstruction-timeline/

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Emancipation Proclamation signed by Pres. Lincoln. Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction announced (10% plan).

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13th amendment written. The temporary Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands is established within the War Department in order to encorporate black people into society. Civil War ends and Lincoln is assassinated 6 days later, allowing his VP to push an anti-black agenda. "Black Codes" drafted, triggering fear in the same way the KKK did as they were formed around the same time. President Johnson declares the reconstruction process complete as he was against it in the first place, making life for blacks more difficult.

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President Johnson vetoes a supplemental Freedmen's Bureau Bill 2X. Civil Rights Bill passed, providing rights to blacks that are nationally protected. Tennessee rejoins Union after Memphis Race Riots, a brutal example of racial brutality against blacks. 14th amendment written. New Orleans riots (40 dead).

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Radical Reconstruction begins, causing unrest for Southern Republicans. 14th amendment begins ratification process. Johnson orders Grant to take over the War Department temporarily

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Black and white lawmakers begin to work together in the South. Johnson is the first president to be impeached. The Rep. Nat. Con. at Chicago nominates Grant for president. Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama rejoin the Union. 14th amendment finally ratified. Black elected officials are ousted from the Georgia state legislature. Grant is elected president. Southern constitutional conventions begin to freedman, providing more opportunities for black people in the South.

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Congress passes the Fifteenth Amendment. Texas v. White decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declares Radical Reconstruction constitutional. Violence against blacks continues throughout the South.

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Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia rejoin the Union. 15th amendment ratified, protecting black people for voting.

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Congress hears testimony from victims of Klan violence. Grant cracks down on anti-black violence in South Carolina.

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Grant reelected.

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New York Tribune accuses black lawmakers in South Carolina of corruption. The Colfax Massacre. The panic of 1873 begins, triggering mass unemployment.

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'74: Democrats win control of Congress.
'75: Republican-led Congress passes the Civil Rights Bill of 1875, prohibiting segregation in public facilities. "Shotgun Policy" devised by Republican party, causing more setbacks for black communities as fear plagues them.
'77: Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is declared president after much debate. Compromise: A back-room deal leads the Republicans to abandon Reconstruction policies in exchange for the presidency. Reconstruction policies officially end. The South codifies and enforces segregation.