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What kinds of rights and supports did recently freed men and women get and…
What kinds of rights and supports did recently freed men and women get and NOT get?
Economic
Slavery was outlawed in the South for good, now African Americans got to work jobs on their own and get paid
Social
African-Americans began to work in politics, along with men being able to vote
Able to speak out for what they believe in and create laws
Spoke out against rights/land for ex-Confederates
Spoke out for public education
Aided in reconstruction
Public education allowed many African Americans to go to school and work in schools
Political
Freedmen's Bureau (source 3)
safeguarded the general welfare of recently liberated slaves and white refugees in the former Confederacy
administrated justice in cases concerning African Americans
helped legalize marriages
regulated black labor under the new conditions
did relief work for both African Americans and whites in war-stricken areas
supported education for African Americans
Congressional Acts (source 1)
15th Amendment allowed all African American men to vote
hundreds of African American politicians were elected
Civil Rights Act of 1875 tried to make racial discrimination in public accomodations illegal
Reconstruction Governments (source 1)
brought African Americans and whites (especially poor whites) to work together in government
South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868 - majority African American delegation
created progressive laws and policies
support for universal public education
Did not get
Reconstruction Governments (source 1)
white southerners tended to oppose these governments, thinking they "favored" African Americans
stemmed from racism, with white people unable to accept African Americans in power
Money (source 7)
Many newly freed people didn't have any money
Confederate Money was useless, they got paid in food, clothes, etc.
Had to work very hard to get little
Work (source 8)
Many white people believed African Americans had "physical compulsion" to doing any work
Many wanted to still preserve slavery, some previous slave owners not telling newly freed people fully about their new rights
Many former plantation owners used corporal punishment on their workers
Enslaved people became free from their masters, but did not have the right to become their own master
Many newly freed people were attacked/murdered by whites, and it was generally accepted in southern society as feelings of a "wronged" person
Some white southerners believed an African American person's purpose in life was solely to farm cotton and other resources just for white people, and that they could not pursue happiness in their own way
African American women still couldn't vote.
Schools in most areas were still segregated