Mississippi becomes first Southern state to enact ‘Black Codes’ 150 years ago today (Nov 24 1865)


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(Friday, November 24, 1865) — Mississippi today became the first Southern state to enact laws which came to be known as “Black Codes” aimed at limiting the rights of newly freed blacks. Other states of the former Confederacy soon followed.