In the United States, both African and Native Americans were two underprivileged groups who gained political and economic rights during the years of 1865 to 1915. But the rights that they had gained was then limited, due to the U.S. Government’s suppression and discrimination towards these minority groups. Using various forms of laws that codified White Supremacy by restricting their civic participation. In 1865, after the Civil war, many southern state legislatures began enacting Black Codes, which were a set of state laws designed to maintain the social and economic structure of racial slavery even though slavery was now abolished. Black Codes affected the rights given to the freed African Americans, as with the Freedmen’s Bureau Act. This was a law that provided food, shelter, clothing, medical care and land to displaced southerner that was particularly targeted towards the newly freed African Americans slaves. This act was also used to maintain the planation systems in southern states. At the time a Republican-controlled congress responded to these measures by passing the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. These amendments …show more content…
An example would be the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which installed a “separate but equal” public facilities like schools, public spaces and restrooms. Creating racial discrimination and segregation among black people and other minorities from white people. Such discrimination had grown to become violent acts like lynching and other forms of unfair and inhumane treatment towards African Americans. That ultimately negated their civil rights. Significant figures like Ida B. Wells, fought against racial discrimination and helped pass anti-lynching bills to help progress the lives of African