Transcript Segregation and Discrimination

Segregation and
Discrimination
Legal discrimination
 Voting restrictions
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Literacy tests
Poll tax
Grandfather clause: reinstate white votes
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If he, his father, or grandfather were eligible to vote
before Jan. 1st, 1867
Before that date African Americans were not allowed
to vote
Legal Segregation
 Jim Crow laws: legal segregation (separating on
race)
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Schools, hospitals, parks and transportation
 Plessy vs. Ferguson-1896
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1/8 Af.Am. Denied a seat in railroad car in white
section- took to Supreme Court
It was legal if facilities were equal
Equal declined in quality
Race relations
 Black men forced to remove hats, to yield to
white pedestrians, never shaking hands
 Accusations- seriously if from white person
 Lynching- illegal execution, w/o trial, carried
out by a mob
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Duluth, MN lynching
http://collections.mnhs.org/duluthlynchings/
 both North and South
Mexican workers
 Agricultural laborers
 debt peonage- involuntary servitude, forced
to work off a debt
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Violation of 13th Amendment
Chinese workers
 Forced to take low paying jobs
 Shoemakers, cigar makers, woolen mill
operators
 Anti-Chinese immigration