1. Kassandra Boliakis
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History: Unit 5 Project
Mrs. McEachen

2. Freedmen
The Fight Has Just Begun

3. • 13th Amendment Ratified December 18, 1865
• Slavery Abolished

4. Challenges of Freedom
• What did they own
• Education
• Ability to earn a living
• Money
• Skills
• Rights

5. • Now we are free. What do we want? We
want education; we want protection; we want
plenty of work; we want good pay for it, but
not any more or less than any one else...and
then you will see the down-trodden race rise
up.
• —John Adams, a former slave
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6. Freedmen’s Bureau
• Helped Freedmen in the South
• Re-building Plantations
• Employment for Blacks
• Basic Necessities
• Legal Assistance
• Communication

7. • 14th Amendment Adopted July 9, 1868
• Defined U.S. Citizenship
• Civil Rights Protection

8. • 15th Amendment Ratified February 3, 1870
• Right To Vote

9. White Supremacists
• Ku Klux Klan
• Enforcement Acts

10. Lynching Discovered
Source: Google Images

11. Ku Klux Klan
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12. Segregation
• Separate but not Equal
• Transportation
• Education
• Restaurants
• Movies

13. Source: Google Images

14. Truly Free
• Education
– 1954 Supreme Court Decision that educational
segregation was unconstitutional
• Civil Rights
– Dr. Martin Luther King
– Civil Rights Bill - 1965

15. There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere
- Nelson Mandella, 1995
Source: Wikiquote.org