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Full Primary Source Set: The Lost Promise of Reconstruction and Rise of Jim Crow, 1860-1896, Lesson 3, Plainest Demands of Justice

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General Order No. 3, June 19. 1865, U.S. Major General Gordon Granger

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The Reconstruction Amendments: Thirteenth Amendment, 1865, Fourteenth Amendment, 1868, and Fifteenth Amendment, 1870

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Frederick Douglass, What the Black Man Wants, 1865

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The Freedmen’s Bureau Act of 1865 

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An Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen, and for other Purposes, 1865 (Mississippi Black Code)

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

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Attacking the Freedmen’s Bureau poster, 1866

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African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E) Pastor S. B. Williams Reports Atrocities to North Carolina Governor Holden, 1869

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Albion W. Tourgée’s Letter to Senator Joseph C. Abbott, May 24, 1870

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Image: Thomas Nast, “The Union As It Was”, 1874

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Congressman Robert B. Elliott’s Speech in Support of the Civil Rights Act, 1874

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Congressman James T. Rapier’s Speech in Support of the Civil Rights Act, February 1875

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Civil Rights Act, 1875 

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Strauder v. West Virginia, 1880

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Civil Rights Cases, 1883

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Frederick Douglass, Speech on the Civil Rights Cases, 1883

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Louisiana Separate Car Act, 1890

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Mississippi Constitution, 1890

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Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, 1892

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Frederick Douglass, The Blessings of Liberty and Education, 1894

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Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895

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Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

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Images from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1866-1900

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