The Development of changing attitudes towards civil rights 1890-1945
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- The development of changing attitudes towards civil rights 1890-1945
- Jim Crow segregation laws
- developed rapidly between 1887-1891
- train carriages were formally segregated
- The significance of the theories of racial superiority
- blacks were able to rub shoulders more freely with whites
- whites viewed blacks as the natural underclass
- theories of social Darwism popular
- hierarchy of races
- provided pseudo-scientific justification
- blacks viewed as lazy, intellectually weak and violent.
- Plessy v Ferguson
- ruled the legal precedent for segregation of railway carriages
- The loss of franchise
- The fifteenth amendment outlawed voting discrimination - grounds of race
- southern states devised complex rules
- technically non racial
- Poll Tax
- Property qualifications
- Literacy tests
- All voters were white - southern
- The Grandfather clause
- Why was there little sympathetic reaction in the north to the loss of black civil rights?
- President Cleveland didn't question white supremacy
- maintained the compromise of 1877
- Mississippi v Williams - poll tax didn't breach the 15th amendment
- cleared the way for stricter conditions
- undermined black voting rights
- even the Progressive Movement failed to take action
- northerners looked on southern states as
- areas of declining economic & political importance
- Roosevelt discussed matters of African-Americans with Washinton
- After Woodrow Wilson entered gov
- all black advisors were dismissed
- segregation in office
- all black advisors were dismissed
- northerners looked on southern states as
- President Cleveland didn't question white supremacy
- Oppression - Lynching
- 1890-1910 southerners saw increase in lynching campaign
- this was racism at its rawest and worst
- southern states and police did little to stop it.
- cases were rarely brought to court - all white jury would rarely convict
- feared that liaisons between races could lead to a 'mulatto'
- moscengenation laws introduced
- banned inter-racial relationships
- convict leasing
- less well known product of hatred
- Jim Crow segregation laws
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