• This Week In Black History November 22 – 28, 2023

     
    NOVEMBER 22
    1865—The Mississippi legislature en­acts the first “Black Codes” aimed at controlling the former slaves. These laws, many of which other Southern states adopted, were so restrictive that they amounted to the re-enslavement of Blacks. In line with the view that much of racism has an economic basis, Blacks were specifically banned from owning farmland. Some of the “Black Codes” were eliminated during Recon­struction, but many actually remain

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