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The Segregation Era of 1877-1954 began as the Civil War was ending (18__) and was preceded by the Reconstruction Era of 1866-1877. During this era blacks were fighting to not only be free, but equal. Slavery had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, but the white people of the South were determined to keep the Negro in his place socially, politically, and economically. This was done by means of the infamous "Black Codes," Separate but Equal doctrine from the Plessey vs. Ferguson case, and the Jim Crow Laws.
After the Civil War, the government began a program of Reconstruction in the South from 1866-1877. The era lasted ten years beginning with the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 which allowed the 10 remaining Southern states (Tennessee had been readmitted to the union in 1866) were divided into five military districts; and under supervision of the U.S. Army, all were readmitted between 1868 and 1870. Each state had to accept the Fourteenth Amendment or if readmitted after its......

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