Changes to American Culture 1865 to 1924

  • Freedman's Bureau

    Freedman's Bureau
    The freedman's Bureau helped with the transition of freed blacks by providing assistance with education and labor wages.
  • Hardships of Freedom

    Hardships of Freedom
    Klu Klux Klan was developed to keep African Americans from exercising their rights to freedom using drastic measures such as killings, burning homes and whippings
  • Radical Reconstruction

    Radical Reconstruction
    In an effort to enforce the 14th amendment which provided equal rights and equal protection from the law congress would only allow those states that supported this to join the union
  • fifteenth amendment

    fifteenth amendment
    To piggy back off the 14th amendment congress gave African Americans the right to vote with the 15th amendment
  • Politics

    Politics
    African Americans were elected to political positions. In Mississippi Hiram Revels was the first African American Senator elected to a senate position in 1870.
  • Migration

    Migration
    Between 1890-1915 many freed African Americans fled the discrimination of the south and headed toward the cities that included New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Chicago
  • Civil RIghts Group

    Civil RIghts Group
    Niagara movement was formed in an effort to obtain social, political, and economic equality for African Americans. This group formed the foundation for the development of NAACP.
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance
    Harlem renaissance period provided African Americans with a renewed pride through the development of music and poetry