The Civil War officially ending on May 9, 1865 at the Appomattox Court House where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. With the Union winning the victory of the war, originally meant that slavery in the South would have to be abolished. Even though slavery was supposed to end after the war, slavery still continued to occur in different states after the war. In the south, racial hostilities toward african americans continued to occur throughout the reconstruction era. President Abraham Lincoln before his death recommended that some freed African Americans should be permitted to vote. African Americans struggled to gain their full citizenship and political rights due to many difficult and violent
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Black codes placed restrictions on the rights of freed blacks in different states including Virginia to to dragged out slavery a little longer. In 1866, Congress proposed the fourteenth amendment to declared all freed people including african americans as citizens and prohibit states from denying their rights as citizens. Congress also passed several of the first civil rights acts to guarantee blacks their rights. One of the acts required former confederates states to hold conventions to write new constitutions. In Virginia, army generals ordered that african americans be given the right to vote and be elected delegates to the convention. In 1867, 105,832 freed black men registered to vote in virginia and 93,145 voted in the October 22, 1867 election. Twenty four African American men won the election of the 1867- 1868 Virginia Constitutional Convention which created the Underwood Constitution. The Underwood Constitution granted the vote to African American men and but it also disenfranchised some former confederates. It was ratified in 1869 and went into effect in January 1870, for the first time all Virginia men had the right to vote,ending Virginia reconstruction period. In the same year, the ratification of the fifteenth amendment of United States Constitution prohibited the states from denying any man the right to vote because of his race, color and any previous conditions of
Black codes placed restrictions on the rights of freed blacks in different states including Virginia to to dragged out slavery a little longer. In 1866, Congress proposed the fourteenth amendment to declared all freed people including african americans as citizens and prohibit states from denying their rights as citizens. Congress also passed several of the first civil rights acts to guarantee blacks their rights. One of the acts required former confederates states to hold conventions to write new constitutions. In Virginia, army generals ordered that african americans be given the right to vote and be elected delegates to the convention. In 1867, 105,832 freed black men registered to vote in virginia and 93,145 voted in the October 22, 1867 election. Twenty four African American men won the election of the 1867- 1868 Virginia Constitutional Convention which created the Underwood Constitution. The Underwood Constitution granted the vote to African American men and but it also disenfranchised some former confederates. It was ratified in 1869 and went into effect in January 1870, for the first time all Virginia men had the right to vote,ending Virginia reconstruction period. In the same year, the ratification of the fifteenth amendment of United States Constitution prohibited the states from denying any man the right to vote because of his race, color and any previous conditions of