Supreme Court allows segregation laws, coining the infamous 'separate but equal' myth.

This federal act prohibited discrimination on the basis of race. Black people were granted equal access to public resources.

This amendment granted Black people the right to vote in the United States. With its passing, seven Black men were elected to the Congress and the Senate. These men were from the states of South Carolina (Rep. Robert C. de Large, Senator Joseph H. Rainey, and Senator R. Brown Elliott), Mississippi (Senator H.R. Revels), Georgia (Rep. Jefferson H. Long), Alabama (Senator Benjamin S. Turner), and Florida. Josiah T. Walls was the first Black senator of Florida.

According to Florida Atlantic University, Florida enacted 19 segregation laws between the years of 1865 and 1967. Florida was also known for enforcing especially harsh penalties to people who broke these Jim Crow laws.