AAs: Gilded Age (1875-1895)

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Gilded Age (1875-1895)
- Social Rights
  - Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) - acted as legal precedent for segregation
  - Jim Crow Laws
  - Small groups moved into the New York district of Harlem from the 1880's where 1st black ghettos developed
Segregation developed in states such as Mississippi and Alabama with large AA populations
- Due to whites fearing economic competition and demands for equality for black people
  - Social Rights
    - Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) - acted as legal precedent for segregation
    - Jim Crow Laws
    - Small groups moved into the New York district of Harlem from the 1880's where 1st black ghettos developed
When Plessy appealed to Supreme Court they upheld that separate accommodation did not deprive AAs of their cr's
- Principle of 'separate but equal'

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