Post US Civil War

1. Abolishment of slavery

1.1. reunion and reconciliation between northern and southern states

1.2. Assassination of Lincoln

1.3. Sharcropping

2. Civil Rights Bill

2.1. Congress overrides president and act becomes law

2.2. 14th Amendment

2.3. Black Codes

3. Jim Crow Laws

3.1. Plessy vs. Ferguson

3.1.1. Brown vs. Board of Education

3.2. Selma

3.3. The Civil Rights Act of 1964

3.4. Formation of the NAACP & other black leadership

4. 15th Amendment

4.1. denial of voting rights to blacks

4.2. sit ins

4.3. emergence of KKK (white supremacy)