Segregation and Discrimination During Reconstruction: Impact on African Americans

1. Chapter 8 section 3 Segregation and Discrimination

2. During Reconstruction (1865-77) • African Americans – voted, and held office

3. After • Jim Crow Laws – laws passed to segregate whites and blacks • Poll Tax – People had to pay to vote • Grandfather Clause – Allowed a man to vote if his Grandfather had been allowed to vote before 1867

4. Poll Tax

5. Plessy vs. Ferguson • Supreme Court Case • Allowed for segregation of races as long as things were equal • Plessy was arrested because he was in white part of RR car

6. Racial Etiquette • Blacks were supposed to: • Move out of the way of a white person on sidewalk • Take off their hats when whites were around • Not shake hands with whites • Not look at white women

7. Racial Violence • In late 1800’s, more than 1,400 blacks were lynched

8. Discrimination in North • Forced into Segregated neighborhoods • Jobs paid less

9. Other Ethnic Groups • Mexicans – were important to agricultural and work on the RR • Many were forced into debt peonage • Chinese – were forced into Chinese only neighborhoods and schools in the west