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The Promise of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow

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

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Attacking the Freedmen’s Bureau poster, 1866

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Image: “Is this a republican form of government? Is this protecting life, liberty, or property? Is this the equal protection of the laws?”, Thomas Nast, 1876

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

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Civil Rights Act, 1875 

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Louisiana Separate Car Act, 1890

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Mississippi Constitution, 1890

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Civil Rights Cases, 1883

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Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

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Residential Segregation in City Zoning Laws, 1910-1911

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Racial Restrictive Covenants, Chicago, 1924-1946

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