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General Kiddoo nixes Contract Law
On this day in 1867, Gen. Joseph P. Kiddoo declared that the Texas Contract Law was biased against freedmen and prevented its enforcement. This law was one of the notorious Black Codes, a series of measures enacted by Southern legislatures to keep blacks in an inferior social position. During Reconstruction the codes tried to uphold continued legal discrimination. Thanks in part to Kiddoo, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, the codes generally failed to accomplish their purpose.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- BLACK CODES
- KIDDOO, JOSEPH BARR
- FREEDMEN'S BUREAU
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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