The Civil Rights Movement Between 1865 And 1920's

The Civil Rights Movement took place between 1865 and 1920. It was a movement for blacks to achieve equal rights in the United States but it didn’t end racial discrimination. American slaves were delivered due to the Civil War and were later given basal civil rights through the acceptance of the Fourteenth amendment, addresses the equal protection and rights of former slaves, and the Fifteenth amendment, granted African-American men the right to vote. A struggle to secure these amendments continued through the next century.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln had been convinced that freeing the South’s slaves would help crush the Confederate Rebellion and win the Civil War. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which took place in 1863, stated that all slaves held in the states “then in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” However,

Constitution.On December 6, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited slavery. Nonetheless, Southern states managed to revive slavery era codes creating unattainable prerequisites for blacks to live, work, or participate in society. The following year, the First Civil Rights Act abolished these “Black Codes,” conferring the “rights of citizenship” on all black people.
Two years after the Civil War, the Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into five different military districts, where new state governments would be established.This began the Radical Reconstruction, which saw the 14th Amendment. The amendment resolved questions of African American citizenship by stating that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside.” The amendment also reaffirmed the privileges and rights of all citizens, and acknowledged all citizens the “equal protection of the