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Introduction

  • Not a lot of funding or materials
  • 1874-1875 funding for white schools was about 17,500 dollars and the funding for African American schools was about 12,000 dollars.
  • According to pbs, "Black school systems relied on hand-me-down textbooks and used equipment, discarded by their white counterparts."
  • Less pay and their rights were different

Losing Grounds in Education

To Begin...

After the Civil War the north and Congress wanted to prevent the south from having white supremacy again. To help do this they established a republican military rule over most of the southern states.

The 14th amendment was passed in 1868. It made the former slaves a whole person instead of 3/5 and protected everyone from anyone denying them life liberty and property with out due process of the law.

The 15th amendment was passed in 1870. This said that the right to vote can't be taken away based on the race, color or previous condition of servitude.

Towards the end of the Reconstruction Era, the southern leaders that had risen to power had big plans for the south.

This new south would include:

  • textile mills
  • Birmingham, Alabama became a major iron making center
  • factories and and cities were being built

Yet still most black and white southerners were in the poverty of the "Old South"

  • Cut spending on schools
  • funding died out, schools charged fees
  • They knew lots of African Americans couldn't afford it
  • 20/397 African Americans enrolled
  • 1880's, 90's and 1900's, only 30% of black students from ages 5-19 were enrolled in schools
  • 1991 about 6% of African American males that were 20 years old to 24 years old were enrolled in schools.

Losing Voting Rights

in Mississippi

The Government

in the South

The government in the south had many issues, but white supremacy had gone away. In 1877 Reconstruction ended and the military rule left, bringing white supremacy back. Blacks voting became very rare to see since they were receiving many threats. The government became mostly democratic. Many laws were passed preventing blacks from doing things.

Mississippi, which became a part of the Union in 1870, held a convention in 1890 to write a new constitution. The goal of the convention was to exclude the blacks. The only problem was the 15th amendment. Since blacks could vote and that couldn't be taken away, the south made restrictions. Those restrictions were having to pay a toll tax and a literacy test. Mississippi also came up with the grandfather clause. The clause said that anyone who had or has a grandfather that could vote on January 1, 1867 didn't have to pay the toll tax or pass the literacy test.

How did Blacks React?

The blacks thought the new laws took away their right to vote. They brought it up to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said that since the laws don't take away the right to vote.

Examples,

What these laws did...

We are going to hand out a list of some common Jim Crow Laws to each group. You can look over them while we continue the presentation.

  • the laws made white people feel superior
  • black people were forced to eat in separate restaurants, go to different bathrooms, go to different schools, and more.
  • caused a lot of civil rights movements

The Color Line

Once Democrats had power again, they passed laws that segregated blacks from whites. The laws were called Jim Crow Laws, named after Jim Crow, a black entertainer.

Background

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  • in 1870, democrats gradually gained majority in southern legislatures
  • was passed as a compromise by democrats to gain votes in the south.
  • were passed at around 1877
  • operated primarily in southern states

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Plessy v.Ferguson Case

Whats the Big Idea?

A lot happened during the reconstruction era. Not all of it was good and not all of it was bad. New laws were made, amendments were passed and many things happened that involved the newly freed slaves.

RECONSTRUCTION REVERSED

A Man named Homer Plessy decided to ignore the Jim Crow laws, and fought his way all the way to the supreme court of Louisiana. Homer Plessy was ⅞ European descent and ⅛ African blood. He was a citizen of the USA and the state Louisiana. He paid for a ticket to sit in the first class white area, then once he sat down where no one else was sitting, was asked to move by the conductor, and after refusing was dragged away by this police to jail. Plessy was part of a group called the Committee of Citizens, who were

against the 13 and 14th amendment

Supreme Courts Decision

The supreme courts decision was made in 1876.

They decided that the segregation laws did not violate the 14th Amendment as long as the facilities available to each race was roughly equal, but that didn't really happen

After this case, additional Jim crow laws were passed, ignoring the supreme courts decision.

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