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Civil Rights Timeline -By Talal and Khalil, The Hamburg Massacre, The Sea…

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        1868
        
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        1875
        
        1876
        
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        A conflict occurs in this small, all-African American town between the African American militiamen armed by the Republican state, and whites who act on their own authority and support Democratic control of the South. Six African American men die because of the white mob.
        
        The Civil Rights Act of 1875 requires equal treatment of whites and African Americans in public accomodations and on public transportation.
        This law is overturned in 1883 by the US Supreme Court.
        
        The 15th Amendment guarantees African-American males suffrage
        
        The 14th Amendment, passed quickly by Congress, is adopted to affirm the Civil Rights Act’s definition of citizenship, overturning the Dred Scott decision of 1857.
        
        Civil Rights act of 1866 passed to make everyone born in the US a US citizen
      - The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment. In a socially repressive response, Southern states pass black codes and the Ku Klux Klan is founded.