chapter 8 – life at the turn of the twentieth century mr. allen u.s. history
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CHAPTER 8 – LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH
CENTURYMR. ALLEN
U.S. HISTORY
CHAPTER 8.3 – SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION
• After Reconstruction, African Americans started a long fought battle to overcome discrimination.
• For at least 10 years after the end of Reconstruction, African Americans in the South continued to vote and occasionally hold political office.
• Until the turn of the century, where states adopted legal policies of racial discrimination
VOTING RESTRICTIONS
• Literacy tests
• Varied difficulty of questions by white pols
• Poll tax – hurt poor Blacks
• Grandfather Clause – 1/1/1867 – father or grandfather could vote
Plessy v Ferguson
• Supreme court ruled that separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the 14th amendment
• Separate but equal – segregated facilities for blacks and whites as long as equal service is provided.
• Blacks who did not follow the racial etiquette could face severe punishment or death
• Between1882 and 1892, more than 1400 African-American men and women were shot, burned or hanged without trial in the South
• The reverse of separate but equal happens on a train, when a drunken white passenger is thrown in the negro car.