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Segregation & Discrimination

Segregation & Discrimination. Voting Restrictions Jim Crow Plessy v. Fergusen. Legal Discrimination. 1877-1887 Blacks voted and held some offices in South; but less and less Southern states instituted laws to remove this power. Voting restrictions. Varied by state Some had literacy laws

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Segregation & Discrimination

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  1. Segregation & Discrimination Voting Restrictions Jim Crow Plessy v. Fergusen

  2. Legal Discrimination • 1877-1887 Blacks voted and held some offices in South; but less and less • Southern states instituted laws to remove this power

  3. Voting restrictions • Varied by state • Some had literacy laws • Some charged a Poll Tax • Many added the Grandfather Clause • Only those whose Grandfather could vote before 1867 could vote

  4. Jim Crow laws • 1870s – 1880s • Segregation laws were passed to prohibit black access to public buildings & facilities • Schools, hospitals, transportation • “Jim Crow” character from minstrel show • 1896 Challenge: Plessy v. Fergusen • P. 290 • Courts said: • Separate But Equal is Legal • Can separate ever be “Equal”?

  5. Race Relations • Jim Crow in the South • Racial Etiquette in the North • Blacks not accepted in White hotels, restaurants, schools • Restrictions in some- to ‘Black Section’ • Followed to avoid trouble: • Yield sidewalk to whites • Remove hats to whites • Do NOT look whites in the eye

  6. Consequences for being an ‘upstart’ • In South: • Shot, burned or hanged w/o trial • In North: • Denied jobs, homes, union memberships • Riots & retaliations follow any acts of resistance

  7. Discrimination in the West • Mexicans • Hired mostly on Railroads & Farm labor • Forced to work for less than whites • Many forced into debt peonage • Sharecropping • Until outlawed 1911 • Chinese • Faced segregation on jobs, schools, homes • Anti-Chinese movement: • Chinese Exclusion Act

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