Depth study - African Americans in the Gilded Age (hinder)

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  • Depth study - African Americans in the Gilded Age
    • growth of segregated transport  - 1881
      • Tennessee passes this law
        • every other southern state followed suit
          • Booker T - favoured this - believed that AA should take advantage of economic opportunities
            • then privileges would follow
              • he believed privileges would NOT be artificially gained by civil rights legislation
    • westward movement joined by 40,000 AA but this could not relieve the tensions
    • punishment of lynching for minor offences
      • law was deliberately ignored in most of the South
    • complicated tests were established, so as to stop AA from voting
      • grandfather clauses - only allowed people whos ancestors who could vote before 1867 to vote
        • implicit descrimination bc they only gained their rights in 1867 from the reconstruction act
    • Segregated district became common in North+South
      • Chicago - 5,000 AA were concentrated in one restricted area
        • NY - Harlem became separate district for the city's 23,000 AA
    • Plessy v Ferguson 1896
      • it cast doubt on whether the 14th amendment 'social, as distinguished from political equality'
    • alot of false arrests and imprisonment
      • disproportionate amount of AA in chain gangs and labour camps
        • so as to control young AA men
    • last remaining AA congressman George H retired in 1901
      • left AA with no congressional representation
    • exlclusion of AA voting - bc of registration laws
      • bc of this they became powerless minority by 1895

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