If you were black, you had to prove that you were employed with a job that the whites would have to approve of but if African-Americans were not able to do that, they would be forced into labor. After the reconstruction in 1867, the situation changed significantly since the republican-dominated congress pushed through the enforcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. This was the period known as the reconstruction that lasted 10 years, from 1867 to 1877, during which the Black Codes were eliminated. As a result, African-Americans were able to vote and were even elected to high office such as governors, senators, state legislators. Everything began to rule out but was all being held by military occupation. In 1873 there was an incident in Louisiana called the Colfax Massacre. This was really a southern democratic force trying to unit around groups in order to just take back what they saw as their rightful place as leaders of these southern governments. During the
If you were black, you had to prove that you were employed with a job that the whites would have to approve of but if African-Americans were not able to do that, they would be forced into labor. After the reconstruction in 1867, the situation changed significantly since the republican-dominated congress pushed through the enforcement of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. This was the period known as the reconstruction that lasted 10 years, from 1867 to 1877, during which the Black Codes were eliminated. As a result, African-Americans were able to vote and were even elected to high office such as governors, senators, state legislators. Everything began to rule out but was all being held by military occupation. In 1873 there was an incident in Louisiana called the Colfax Massacre. This was really a southern democratic force trying to unit around groups in order to just take back what they saw as their rightful place as leaders of these southern governments. During the