Reconstruction Era

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The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868 as part of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2024

This is really the fabric of America – like this idea of a maze incorporates the Civil Rights movement, the Reconstruction Era.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

Also, in some southern states, convict leasing was essentially a new form of slavery that started during the Reconstruction Era and went on for decades.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2023

But the promise of the Reconstruction Era amendments was cut short and did not fully come to life until the civil rights movement sparked the Second Reconstruction during the 1960s.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2019

In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander