it will pass resolutions declaring that, in its former action it was governed by an unbiased construction of the reconstruction acts of Congress, and the new Constitution of the state, and that it ...

Eric Foner: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is the last major piece of Reconstruction legislation. It outlaws racial discrimination in public accommodations -- hotels, transportation, opera houses ...

One way they tried to do so was by passing the Reconstruction Acts, laws that provided suffrage to freed slaves and prevented former Southern rebels from regaining control of the state governments.

The landscape of the 19th century and the Reconstruction Era in particular is a critical period in U.S. history. In fact, sources claim it as the nexus of Black activism ...