The Post-Reconstruction SouthUnit 4

We will: analyze the post-reconstruction period and see how institutionalized racism developed.◦Est. a practice or custom

I will: describe institutionalized racist practices in post-reconstruction America.

Lesson A:

Civil War was over northern troops leave Democratic party re-established power many new laws to help newly free AA’s were repealed.◦“Redemption of the South”

In other words the politicians tried to put backrules/laws the way they were.

New rules/laws “Jim Crow” laws were only for Black Americans (crow = black).◦Miscegenation◦Literacy tests◦Poll taxes

Purpose to deprive AA’s of new rights.

Small Group

Complete the literacy test!

Those against racial discrimination challenge racism through the courts.

1st major case was it legal to have “separate but equal” facilities?◦Homer Plessy v. John H. Ferguson (1896)

Supreme Court voted 7-1 YES!◦Kept racism institutionalized.

At the same time racism is being challenged in some parts of America, the Ku Klux Klan is gaining popularity in other parts.◦Violence ◦Intimidation