Acts against equality after slavery

KKK

Founded 12/24/1865, it’s a terrorist organization that wears white sheets to “haunt” black people as “the ghosts of fallen confederate soldiers.” Mostly responsible for lynchings and other violent crime

Black codes

Rules set for African American people preventing them from voting, owning property, meeting with one another, owning firearms, being out past dark, or working for anyone other than a white man. Punishment was being imprisoned, which meant they would be put back into slavery

Sharecropping

Replaced slavery- Exploiting poor African American farmers by having them work for white farmers, they were compensated with a percentage of crops. Used to keep people in poverty.

Voting violence

African Americans who made it passed voting restrictions would often just be killed and used as an example to scare other African Americans out of voting.

Start of the Redemption era

1877- Reconstruction ended. The North pulls military out of the south and stops trying to enforce reconstruction due to expenses