James Lee Dickey: An Analysis of One African-American's Leadership in Jim Crow Texas

14th Amendment

A series of Reconstruction Acts passed through Congress between 1867 and 1868 creating 5 military districts to oversee the former Confederate states (except Tennessee which had already been readmitted), demanded that each state write a new constitution ratifying the 14th amendment which guaranteed citizenship and equal protection of the law for anyone born or naturalized in the United States. The Reconstruction Acts also divided the South into 5 military districts to be governed by a military commander until the southern states wrote acceptable state constitutions.

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