How did southern blacks lose rights in the years after the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments?

a. new amendments later limited black southerners’ legal status.

b. few black southerners took advantage of their newfound freedoms.

c. some white southerners used state legislation, segregation, and violence to limit the freedoms of blacks.

d. black southerners did not lose any rights during these years.

the best description of postwar writers might be progressive.

following the war, writers showed a tendency to work on artistic or social matters rather than political themes. while postwar literature may not have been the greatest period of english literature, the themes provided excellent critics a high number of novels. such examples include anthony burgess, anthony powell and frank kermode, all of which can be placed under the progressive view.

frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. but frederick disliked rifle shooting and horseback riding. unlike his father, he was interested in french literature. he enjoyed poetry and music and, like some others of the enlightenment, he scoffed at religion. his father thought him soft, frivolous and unmindful of his duties. and when frederick refused to put his signature on a right to succession, for a few moments his father strangled him.