Reconstruction & Jim Crow Laws

This collection displays the freedom blacks almost achieved after the war and the unjust conditions of segregation.

Featured Pages

• Jim Crow Laws

Search Reconstruction Era Records

Sample Black History records during the Reconstruction era

• Robert Smalls, Member of U.S. House of Representatives
• Lieut. Governor Dunn of Louisiana, Reconstruction
• "White man arrested for death of" black man
• Black "taken from bed by unknown white men"
• Abolition of Slavery Amendment