The Failure of Reconstruction

I. A Reconstruction Timeline

Students at a Freedman’s Bureau School A. The Rise of Reconstruction (1865-1870): Rec. Act of 1867, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Force Acts Students at a Freedman’s Bureau School

B. Republican Rule in the South (1870-1877)

C. Reconstruction Ends: The Hayes-Tilden Election and the Compromise of 1877

II. Growing Resistance to Reconstruction The Racism of White Southerners: KKK, Black Codes….. B. The Racism and Indifference of White Northerners

III. The Legacy of Reconstruction Negative: Social Inequality: Plessy v. Ferguson & Jim Crow Laws

Sample Jim Crow Laws Textbooks: Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them. (North Carolina) Baseball: It shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race. (Georgia)

Another Jim Crow Law Restaurants. It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. (Alabama)

Of Course He Wants to Vote for the Democratic Ticket Political Inequality: Poll Taxes, Grandfather Clauses, Literacy Tests, etc. Of Course He Wants to Vote for the Democratic Ticket

Economic Inequality: -- 40 Acres and a Mule? -- Sharecropping and Debt

Lynching and Racial Violence

B. Positive Example and Legal Framework for Civil Rights Movement Black Institutions and Black Leaders