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Page 1: Reconstruction and African American Rights. African American Population Concentrations in 1890

Reconstruction and African American Rights

Page 2: Reconstruction and African American Rights. African American Population Concentrations in 1890

Reconstruction and African American Rights

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African American Population Concentrations in 1890

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African American Population Concentrations in 1890

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Alfred R. Waud. Mustered Out. Little Rock, Arkansas, April 20, 1865.Drawing. Chinese white on green paper.

Published in Harper's Weekly, May 19, 1866.

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Alfred Waud's drawing captures the exuberance of the Little Rock, Arkansas, African American community as the U. S. Colored Troops

returned home at the end of the Civil War.

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The Exodusters• After the Civil War

there was a general exodus of blacks from the South.

• These migrants became known as "Exodusters" and the migration became known as the "Exoduster" movement.

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The Exodusters• Some applied to be

part of colonization projects to Liberia and locations outside the United States; others were willing to move north and west.

• Benjamin Singleton led an exodus of African Americans from various points in the South to Kansas.

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Education During the Reconstruction

• Henry L. Stephens.[Elderly black man with spectacles reading a newspaper by candlelight].Watercolor, ca. 1863.

• In this image, one aged man is reading a newspaper with the headline, "Presidential Proclamation, Slavery."

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Education During the Reconstruction

• At emancipation, only a small percentage of African Americans knew how to read and write.

• By the turn of the twentieth century the majority of African Americans could read and write.

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Education During the Reconstruction

• Many classrooms were filled with both young and old, grandfathers with their children and grandchildren, all eager to learn.

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James E. Taylor. "The Freedmen's Union Industrial School, Richmond, Va.“ From Frank Leslie's Illustrated

Newspaper, September 22, 1866.

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Northern teachers, many of whom were white women, traveled into the South to provide education and training

for the newly freed population

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African Americans Vote!• The Fifteenth

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified March 30, 1870, provided that all male citizens were entitled to vote.

• Because the black population was so large in many parts of the South, whites were fearful of their participation in the political process.

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African Americans Vote!• Radical

Republicans in the U.S. Congress were determined that African Americans be accorded all of the rights of citizenship.

• Alfred R. Waud."The First Vote."From Harper's Weekly, November 16, 1867. Copyprint.

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African American Republicans Legislators Elected to Congress,

1872

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Reconstruction Amendments

• 13th Amendment (1865) Ends slavery

• 14th Amendment(1866-68) Extends citizenship rights: “privileges and immunities,” “due process,” equal protection”

• 15th Amendment (1869-70) Protects and ensures right to vote

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