Hiram Rhodes Revels used his experiences to help him advocate for African Americans after the Civil War. In the space
below, use your knowledge of slavery and the Civil War to write a letter to a newspaper in which you advocate for the
rights of former slaves. Write this letter as if it were to be published in the 1870s. Submit your letter.

they were byzantines

was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all americans. the era has had a lasting impact on united states society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. in the south violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled southern white democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the south