Your history dose for the morning.
On this day in 1865 The Mississippi legislature enacts the first “Black Codes” aimed at controlling the former enslaved people.
These laws, many of which other Southern states adopted, were so restrictive that they amounted to the re-enslavement of Afrikans.
In line with the view that much of racism has an economic basis, Afrikans were specifically banned from owning farmland.
Some of the “Black Codes” were eliminated during Reconstruction, but many actually remained on the law books until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Contributing to our consciousness of the past, to inform us of the present, thus enabling us to more effectively fore see and influence the future.
Have a great morning.
