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Objective 2.8- The Jim Crow South

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do you remember this  ultimately Southern whites were Furious about the new laws that protected blacks they fear that freed African-Americans main power in southern politics so Southern States resisted any new laws any way they could the stage was set for racial clashes in southern Society southerners resist the changes to society anyway they could  as America moved forward in the Gilded Age African Americans face dark times in the Jim Crow the Jim Crow South referred to Jim Crow laws these laws enforced segregation segregation is the act of separating People based on 2nd play characteristics and criteria in the American South there was Separation by race Jim Crow laws enforced segregation of black and white people in both public and private facilities Southern States passed measures to take votes away from blacks the first such measure was the poll tax with a poll tax you had to pay a tax in order to vote typical white voters could afford the poll tax while blackwood's are unable to afford it that's keeping them from voting another measure use to keep blacks from voting was literacy tests white and black voters how to pass a literacy test in order to prove that they could read before they can vote usually African American voters were given harder test to guarantee that they would fail look at the sample provided spell backwards forwards print the word vote upside down but in the correct order these questions confusing even for us today imagine and illiterate turn American sharecropper trying to figure out these questions in order to vote under pressure it be nearly impossible to do the final measure used to keep blacks from voting was the grandfather the grandfather clause Exempted you from the poll tax or the literacy test if your grandfather or father voted before 1867 this closet text Lee setup so Akron Americans could not vote because in 1867 the 15th amendment was passed which allowed African-Americans to vote there's no way that an African-American could have vote the four deer 1867 the Gilded Age also gave us one of the most significant Supreme Court case rulings in the history of the United States Plessy versus Ferguson 96 since the end of the Civil War the United States Supreme Court have looked the other way on the unconstitutional anti-black laws in the south in 1896 cream Court decided to hear a case the challenge segregation in the South based of the 14th Amendment equal protection under the law regardless of race in the ruling the Supreme Court established football up separate but equal through this principle the Supreme Court judge that African-Americans were not denied their citizenship rights because they were provided the same services as white even if those Services were provided in a separate setting for example no African-American to the South could say that they are being denied their citizenship right to education because will they had to go to separate all black schools away from whites they were still being provided an education ultimately the effect of Plessy versus Ferguson is that Syrian was ruled legal unconstitutional this will ensure that cigarette gation and discrimination in the South would be protected by law in the United States for another sixty years the legacy of separate but equal in the Jim Crow South basically creates to America's white and black southern states continue denying blacks their natural rights facilitating racial discrimination until the 1950s this left African Americans unprotected from violent retaliation for resisting discrimination with segregation in racial discrimination protected by law it would be another 50 years before the Civil Rights Movement would be able to correct the wrongs of the Jim Crow South Crayola Baseball

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