Transcript Segregation & Discrimination

Segregation &
Discrimination
Voting Restrictions
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Fergusen
Legal Discrimination
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1877-1887 Blacks voted and held some offices
in South; but less and less
Southern states instituted laws to remove this
power
Voting restrictions
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Varied by state
Some had literacy laws
Some charged a Poll Tax
Many added the Grandfather Clause
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Only those whose Grandfather could vote before
1867 could vote
Jim Crow laws
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1870s – 1880s
Segregation laws were passed to prohibit black
access to public buildings & facilities
Schools, hospitals, transportation
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“Jim Crow” character from minstrel show
1896 Challenge: Plessy v. Fergusen
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P. 290
Courts said:
Separate But Equal is Legal
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Can separate ever be “Equal”?
Race Relations
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Jim Crow in the South
Racial Etiquette in the North
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Blacks not accepted in White hotels, restaurants,
schools
Restrictions in some- to ‘Black Section’
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Followed to avoid trouble:
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Yield sidewalk to whites
Remove hats to whites
Do NOT look whites in the eye
Consequences for being an ‘upstart’
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In South:
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Shot, burned or hanged w/o trial
In North:
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Denied jobs, homes, union memberships
Riots & retaliations follow any acts of resistance
Discrimination in the West
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Mexicans
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Hired mostly on Railroads & Farm labor
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Forced to work for less than whites
Many forced into debt peonage
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Sharecropping
Until outlawed 1911
Chinese
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Faced segregation on jobs, schools, homes
Anti-Chinese movement:
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Chinese Exclusion Act