Socially they were segregated and discriminated against. Jim Crow laws were very strong and enforced, housing was segregated, so were schools, colleges didn't accept African Americans, the military was segregated, movies and restaurants were segregated, social events were segregated, even funerals and cemeteries were segregated.
9 million people were in confederacy in 1865 that were not slaves .
African-Americans who lived in the North between 1865 and 1900 generally faced wretched living conditions.
During most of the Reconstruction period (1865-1877), President Ulysses S. Grant served in office from 1869 to 1877. He followed Andrew Johnson, who was president from 1865 to 1869. Grant's administration focused on implementing Reconstruction policies and addressing the challenges of integrating formerly enslaved people into society. His presidency also faced significant political and social challenges during this transformative era in American history.
The North, or the Union, which is why there are no black slaves in America. The South, the Confederacy, surrendered on April 9, 1865.
The Reconstruction Era : 1865 - 1677 .
1865
December of 1865; the 13th amendment
It ended when the Civil War was over, which was April 1865!
1865
On the 13th of March 1865 the Confederacy approves black soldiers.
George Ruddell Black was born in 1865.
Black Codes ended in 1865
American Social Science Association was created in 1865.
By congress passing the Civil rights act of 1866, then being followed by the 14th ammendment.
Slavery
9 million people were in confederacy in 1865 that were not slaves .
In 1865, Charleston, South Carolina, had a significantly higher population of black slaves compared to white residents. It is estimated that there were approximately 40,000 black slaves to around 10,000 white people, resulting in a ratio of about 4:1. This demographic imbalance was largely due to the city's role as a major center of the slave trade and plantation economy in the antebellum South.