African Americans After Reconstruction

Ok after the war Mississippi abolished slavery but refused to ratify the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, and in March 1867, under the Congressional plan of Reconstruction, it was organized with Arkansas into a military district commanded by Gen. E. O. C. Ord. After a lot of agitation, a sponsor for the Republican constitution guaranteeing basic rights to blacks was adopted in 1869. Mississippi was taken back in to the Union early in 1870 after ratifying the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and meeting other Congressional requirements. While some of the republicans stayed in power the government was composed of new immigrants from some of the north they had African American and obedient Caucasians. In 1874 a man known by

After reconstruction help was virtually disfranchised. Allot of K.K.K. were bolstered by the constitution of 1890, after that it was used as a model for other states in the south under the term as a prospective voter would need the skill of reading and writing in order to understand any of the constitutional previsions. Now at the turn of the century most African American Mississippians couldn’t read nor write neither could some of the Caucasians but the test was rarely given to them and the reason for that is because the county registrar could pick out voters who didn’t agree with his agree with his interpretation of the constitution and African Americans were disfranchised and from the ruins of shattered plantation the economy had risen the sharecropping system. The banker and the merchant both had replaced the planter over having one of the largest financial interest in farming. A lot of times the system made a lot of the sharecroppers Caucasian and some African American somewhat a little more than economy slaves. The landowners kept up their grip on politics until 1904 when the little farm people elected James K Vardaman for