civil rights act of 1866

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: April 9, 1866 Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s

veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on

African-Americans, becomes law Civil

Rights Act of 1866, “An Act to protect all Persons in the United States

in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication” http://www.african-american-civil-rights.org/civil-rights-act-of-1866

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NORTHERN BLACK CODES Seen as a threat to white laborers, blacks were widely disenfranchised in Northern States, especially during the 1850s and 60s. It was not until after the War that these so-called "black codes" showed up in the South. Free blacks not only had restrictions placed on opportunities... View More

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No Friends of the Negro Up North: (A) large number of contraband Negroes had fled to Cairo, Illinois. Seeking help for them, Brigadier General T.W. Tuttle wrote to Mayor Sherman of Chicago, saying: "I have a large number of applications from your city for Negro servants. Will you....see that they a... View More

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Northern Degradation of the Free Negro “All the social advantages, all the respectable employments, all the honors, and even the pleasures of life are denied free Negroes of the North, by pious Abolitionists full of sympathy for the downtrodden African,” Parson Brownlow told his Philadelphia audie... View MoreNorthern Degradation of the Free Negro “All the social advantages, all the respectable employments, all the honors, and even the pleasures of life are denied free Negroes of the North, by pious Abolitionists full of sympathy for the downtrodden African,” Parson Brownlow told his Philadelphia audience in 1858. Daniel R. Hunley . . . [heard] Henry Ward Beecher describe the condition of free Negroes more graphically and authoritatively than any Southerner could have done: “They are refused the common rights of citizenship which the [Northern] whites enjoy . . . They are snuffed at even in the House of God, or tolerated with ill-disguised disgust . . . We heap upon them moral obloquy more atrocious than that which the master heaps upon the slave.” In 1828 a Southern visitor to New York was served “by an intelligent young man of colour” who indicated that he was seriously considering returning South to his master who had taken him and his wife North to manumit them. He had rejected the idea of going to Liberia, because the reports from there were that it was “the most miserable place in the world. I had rather remain here.” When the white man then pointed out that if he returned South he could not know into whose hands he might fall in the event of his master’s death, he replied that he would prefer to take that chance than to remain where he was. When a former slave went to Cincinnati to live, his difficulties were numerous; and when there were no work opportunities, he was accused of stealing. In his plea of guilty, he made a statement that . . . “Since I came here,” he said, “I have been kicked about and abused by all classes of white men; can’t get work from no one; and to borrow money . . . that is out of the question.” He concluded by saying that as soon as he served his time on the chain gang he would return South and become a slave.” (A Southern Odyssey, Travelers in the Antebellum North, John Hope Franklin, LSU Press, 1976, pp. 151-152)

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