- Texas Article of Secession.
- Texas Constitution of 1861.
- Wade-Davis Bill of 1864.
- 13th Amendment
- 14th Amendment
- 15thAmendment
- Black Codes. (Texas)
- Civil Rights Act of 1866.
- Texas Constitution of 1866.
- Texas Constitution of 1869.
- Enforcement Acts - 1870 and 1871.
- Ku Klux Klan Act.
- Amnesty Act of 1872.
- Redeemers.
- Civil Rights Act of 1875.
- Compromise of 1877.
- Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
- Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era.