Dec 16, 2009

Salem on History | Civil Rights Act of 1866

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Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Laws, Acts, Legislation
Curriculum: African American History, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877)
Geographical Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: April 9, 1866

Article abstract: This act joins the Thirteenth Amendment as the first federal legislation to enhance the rights of freed African Americans.

Summary of Event

At the end of the Civil War lay the long road of Reconstruction. As early as 1863, President Abraham Lincoln had expressed a plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War. These plans required a loyalty oath and acceptance of emancipation from Southern states desiring readmission to the Union. It was not until after Lincoln’s assassination that Reconstruction began in earnest.

Andrew Johnson,...

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Salem on History | Civil Rights Act of 1866

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Summary of Event

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