Segregation & Discrimanation
Effected:
African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican residents, and Chinese immigrants
Voting Restrictions
- In southern states blacks couldn't vote or had to be able to read and most times were given harder reading tests or just failed because the officials didn't like blacks
Poll Tax - an anual tax you had to pay each year before voting
Grandfauther Clause - This clause they added to the constitution saying if you couldn't read or pay the tax you could still vote if your grandfauther or fauther had been able to vote before the date of January 1st, 1867. (before this date blacks were not allowed to vote)
Jim Crows Law
Segrigation Laws - Whites and blacks were seperated in public areas
- These laws were called Jim Crows Laws after a popular song that ended with jump, JIm Crow
Plessy VS. Ferguson
- 1896 Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal
- Ruled against the 14th amendment
- Established doctiene "Seperate But Equal"
- This lasted for around 60 years
Violence
Between 1882-1892 over 1,400 African-American men and women were shot,
burned, or hanged without trial in the South
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