Between 1877 and 1900, what can be done for black civil rights, protection, equality, and so forth by the government of the United States and President? Similarly, what effects would such things have?
Between 1877 and 1900, what can be done for black civil rights, protection, equality, and so forth by the government of the United States and President? Similarly, what effects would such things have?
The proper interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which was intended to ensure all U.S. citizens had the rights the federal constitution guaranteed.
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Any evidence to show that blacks in the South were systematically disarmed or prohibited from owning firearms?
Ensure that Woodrow Wilson doesn't end up in the White House.
Off the top, I'd say 40 Acres and a Mule. As long as the economic levers and the land ownership remained with the white planter class, blacks were going to inevitably be disenfranchised.
To allow blacks to be full citizens, you'd have to break the power of the elites. Simple as that.
This is all a neat idea, but IMO is basically impossible, because the end of Reconstruction meant the terrorists had won in the South, and any hope for rule of law applying to blacks was gone for decades.
Any evidence to show that blacks in the South were systematically disarmed or prohibited from owning firearms?
Off the top, I'd say 40 Acres and a Mule. As long as the economic levers and the land ownership remained with the white planter class, blacks were going to inevitably be disenfranchised.
To allow blacks to be full citizens, you'd have to break the power of the elites. Simple as that.
The time when former slaves could have been compensated and the planter class destroyed was the immediate aftermath of the Civil War.
Someone said that blacks eventually got land, I am pretty sure that most were share croppers- not exactly full land ownership.