Definitions for "Black Codes"
Laws passed in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves; to combat the codes, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment and set up military governments in southern states that refused to ratify the amendment. Black Power Post-1966 rallying cry of a more militant civil rights movement.
restrictions placed upon African-American freemen in the aftermath of their emancipation.
Laws enacted after the Civil War to keep African Americans as a cheap work force.
Black Codes (From the Underground) is a 1985 post-bop jazz album by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Originally released on record, it was reissued on CD in 1990.