The Era of the Civil War & Reconstruction, c. 1861 to 1877
Discuss the issue of Civil Rights in the aftermath of Reconstruction’s end, with an emphasis on the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. How were the Civil Rights of African Americans curtailed in the period following 1877? Why was it possible to created the segregated, Jim Crow South in the aftermacgoth of Reconstruction? Be specific