Racial politics

OUTLINE SEGREGATION 1870-1920

Intro: Segregation, what is it?

Freedom- 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment

Southern Response? Fear, Intimidation, and the reinvention of Slavery

Social Effects:

Continued Racism

Separation of the races-whites only-colored only

Mental Slavery-Lynching

Rise of the KKK-Fear and Intimidation

Economics: See Documentary. Slavery by Another Name.

Sharecropping. Industrial Age, wealth from the exploitation of African Americans

Continued Poverty in Black Communities

Prison Gangs, slavery by another name

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Political Effects:

Black Codes and the response to Freedom

Jim Crow Laws

Plessy v Ferguson 1898- One drop rule, Separate but Equal

Political Disfranchisement. Poll taxes, Tests, Jelly Bean tests, etc.

Cultural Effects

Rise of the independent Black Church

Family Life-Names, Marriage, Identity etc.

Music-Blues and Jazz

Migration up north and the spreading of black culture.

Creation of the Black Church?

Sports

NAACP

Conclusion- Impact of freedom and its responses by the southern states

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