Civil Rights

Civil Rights

Introduction

The origin of municipal privileges, established with the marking of the Declaration of Independence and through the Industrial Revolution, shifted at a slow pace. As the topic of slavery and if the U.S. government would permit it in the border states warmed up, the progression of municipal privileges for all its people started to take center stage in the American theater.

 

America in 1800: Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 set free slaves in states still battling the Civil War but it was not until the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that slavery was eradicated all through the United States. It was not until the 14th Amendment was approved that previously enslaved people were conceded “equal protection” under Federal law. When the 15th Amendment was approved, U.S. people could no longer be deprived of the right to ballot founded on rush or gender, but it was not until 1920, when the 19th Amendment was approved by the states, that women were permitted to vote.

In 1863, future managers of the suffragist action accumulated 300,000 signatures on a appeal that claimed the end of slavery by legal amendment. The Women's Loyal National League, under the main heading of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, submitted the appeal to the U.S. Senate. They would come back to the Senate years subsequent requiring the right to ballot for women (Gerald, 1997).

Main characteristics of the post-Reconstruction time span were:

Racial segregation. By regulation, public amenities and government services for example learning were split up into distinct "white" and "colored" domains. Characteristically, those for tinted were underfunded and of inferior quality.

Disfranchisement. When white Democrats retrieved power, they passed regulations that made voter registration more inaccessible to blacks. Black voters were compelled off the voting rolls. The number of African American voters ...