Jim Crow
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Presentation Transcript
Overview • Post Civil War Reconstruction • Legal Struggle • Social Struggle
Post Civil War • Radical Republicans • Unionists • Dixiecrats • Black people
Radical Republicans • Punish South • Reapply for statehood • Expropriate rebel leaders • Empower Republican Party • Enfranchise Black voters
Unionists • Preserve Federal government • Amnesty for Rebels • Revitalization of southern economy
Dixiecrats • Reestablish pre-war political order • Reestablish pre-war racial labor system
Black people • Family reunification • Economic empowerment • Freedmen’s Bureau
Legal Struggle • Black Codes • Amendments and Civil Rights acts • Federal Courts
Black Codes • Establish indentured servitude • Limit black political action
Amendments and Civil Rights • Amendments • 13th • 14th • 15th • Civil rights legislation
Lynchings • 1200 lynchings of African Americans • 1400 lynchings of Mexican Americans
New Stereotypes • Myth of Black Rapist • health differences • intelligence • morality
Nationalizing Race Theory • Social Darwinism • defined • movement to the rest of US • application to other “non-white races”
1924 • 1924=20 million • members • growth outside South (photo from Records of the United States Information Agency, Record Group 306, item 306-NT-650-4)
Klan March 1920’s • Public grouping • Political organization • klan women