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November 24, 2021

Black Codes

November 24, 2021

After the loss of the Confederacy, Southern States were reluctant to change. Mississippi, for instance, enacted on this day in 1865 specific laws called Black Codes that prohibited Black people from education, from bearing arms, and generally from enjoying civil rights.

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