Rise to rights for African-Americans kept on expanding after 1877. Amid the time of Reconstruction, which kept going from 1865 to 1877, Congress passed and upheld laws that advanced common and political rights for African Americans over the South. Amid Reconstruction, seven hundred African American men served in chose open office, among them two United States Senators, and fourteen individuals from the United States House of Representatives. Another thirteen hundred African American men and ladies held selected government occupations.
