Sociology 3321F/G Lecture Notes - Montgomery Improvement Association, Reconstruction Acts, De Jure
1 Feb 2013
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Reconstruction: from 1867 to 1877, during the period called reconstruction, black-white relations were unlike anything they had ever been. The reconstruction act of 1867 put each southern state under a military governor until a new state constitution could be written, with blacks participating fully in the process. Black men put their vote to good use; blacks were elected as six lieutenant governors, sixteen major state officials, twenty members of the house of representatives, and two u. s. senators. Black officials created new and progressive state constitutions, and black political organizations rivaled the church as the focus of community organization. The segregation period: reconstruction was ended as part of a political compromise in the election of 1876 and, consequently, segregation became entrenched in the south by the close of the nineteenth century. The term jim crow became synonymous with segregation and referred to the statutes that kept african americans in an inferior position.
