Reconstructed Constitution

ID: 6437 ~ Source: "Extract from the Reconstructed Constitution Of The State of Louisiana with Portraits of the Distinguished Members of the Convention and Assembly," 1868, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, https://catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/search#/entity/thnoc-archive/1979.183/extract-from-the-reconstructed-constitution-of-the-state-of-louisiana-with-portraits-of-the-distinguished-members-of-the-convention-and-assembly.

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After the Civil War, Black citizens filled state and federal elected offices. Pictured above are the men of color who served in the Louisiana legislature in 1868 and crafted the most radical state constitution of the former Confederacy. The Louisiana Constitution protected Black citizens from segregation and other racial discrimination. Members of the Comité des Citoyens served in the 1868 constitutional convention.

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