Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (1865)

Jourdan Anderson, “To My Old Master” (1865)

The Black Code of St. Landry Parish (1865)

“The Memphis Riots,” Harper’s Weekly (1866)

Notice (1868)

The Reconstruction Amendments Thirteenth Amendment (1865) Fourteenth Amendment (1868)
Fifteenth Amendment (1870)

The Enforcement Acts
Enforcement Act (1870)
Enforcement Act (1871)
Ku Klux Klan Act (1871)

Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) & Reconstruction
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) Cruikshank v. United States (1875) Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas Railroad v. Mississippi (1890)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)