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Post-Civil War Life For African-Americans. By: Troy Nickens. After The Civil War. Reconstruction of The South between 1865 and 1870. The 13 th , 14 th , and 15 th Amendments. Rise of Ku Klux Klan. Reconstruction ultimately failed due to creation of the “Black Codes”.
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Post-Civil War Life For African-Americans By: Troy Nickens
After The Civil War • Reconstruction of The South between 1865 and 1870. • The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. • Rise of Ku Klux Klan. • Reconstruction ultimately failed due to creation of the “Black Codes”. • Restoration of White Supremacy in The South.
“Black Codes” • Created to limit the opportunities of free blacks in the south. • Ensured availability as a work force since slavery was abolished. • In some southern states African-Americans were only permitted to work as domestic servants or in agriculture. • Black Codes soon turned into Jim Crow Laws. • Boy Willie still worked on Sutter’s land after slavery was abolished.
Life In The South • Racism had a very strong influence in southern states. • Jim Crow Laws • Segregation • Hate Crimes
Life In The North • Mass migration of African-Americans to The North created racial tension in northern cities such as New York. • New Deal programs presented new opportunities for African-Americans in The North. • Enabled African-American artists to find word during the depression.
The Great Migration: African-American Exodus • Leave southern racism to forge a new beginning in the North. • Between 1915 and 1970, estimated 6 million African-Americans moved from The South to The North, Midwest, and West. • During Early 1900s New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland saw about 40 percent increase in African-American Population. • Harlem, New York became a center for African-American Culture.
Booker T. Washington • Believed that Education was the key to achieving equality. • Was tolerant of segregation. • Founded Tuskegee Institute in the black belt of Alabama. • Faced black and white opposition when the Niagara Movement and NAACP groups demanded civil rights and protested against white aggression.
W.E.B. Du Bois • Demanded full equality without compromise • One of the co-founders of the NAACP • One of the co-founders of the Niagara Movement • Opposed Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise. • Spoke against racism in the military, in education, and white aggression.
Marcus Garvey • Believed that all African-Americans should return to their ancestral land (Africa). • Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Bibliography • http://mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu/students/3090/04SP3090-Briggs.htm • http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture09.html • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/introduction.html • http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/washington/bio.html • http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/part5.html • http://www.biography.com/people/marcus-garvey-9307319 • http://www.biography.com/people/web-du-bois-9279924