#tdih 1868 South Carolina constitutional convention met with a majority of Black delegates, adopting a constitution that provided for all people regardless of race, economic class, or gender. "SC Constitution was revolutionary." #TeachReconstruction 1/3 zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/Sout…
"The 1868 Constitution abolished debtors’ prison, provided for public education, rights for women, abolished property ownership as a qualification for office holding. . . Provisions [in schools] for the deaf and blind were also ordered. Black Codes were overturned." And more. 2/3
"It was in 1868, in state after state, when Black men, many of them formerly enslaved, gathered with white men, many of them poor and disempowered until Reconstruction, to rewrite the constitutions of the South." 3/3 zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
