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Jim Crow Laws- The four pillars of Oppression
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POLITICAL
Disenfranchised: The act of depriving someone of a right or privilege.
THE STOLEN GENERATION
The Stolen Generation are the generations of Aboriginal children taken away from their families by Australian Governments, churches and welfare bodies to be brought up in institutions or fostered out to white families.
Jim Crow Laws- The three pillars of Oppression
Klu Klux Klan
ECONOMIC
SOCIAL
According to research conducted by Tuskegee Institute, the number of black victims of lynching reported betweeen 1882 and 1889 are of the following:
1,132 black victims of lynching reported between 1890 and 1899
791 black victims of lynching reported between 1900 and 1909
568 black victims of lynching reported between 1910 and 1919
281 black victims of lynching reported between 1920 and 1929
One democrat (Grover Cleveland) elected to presidency between 1860 and 1912:
130,000 estimated number of blacks registered to vote in Luisiana during 1896
1,342 estimated number of blacks registered to vote in Luisiana during 1904
7,000,000 estimated number of African-Americans residing in the Ex-Confederate states of the South during 1910
Less than 1,000,000 estimated number of African-Americans residing outside of the Ex-Confederate states of the South during 1910
Manufacturing employment increased from 14.5% in 1930 to 23.1% in 1960, however the increase was the largest for non-durable goods. In the South, industrial growth began with labor intesive, unskilled industries. For black males, agricultural employment drastically dropped from 43.6% in 1940 to 4.9% in 1980.
- There were separate black and white rest rooms, drinking fountains and waiting rooms.
-Blacks were given the choice to sit in the balcony of a mixed movie theater (black & white) or sit in a separate theater for blacks only.
-Blacks could not order food at the front of restaurants. Many restaurants simply refused to serve blacks at all.
-Blacks and whites went to county fairs on different days.
-Blacks were not allowed to use public libraries.
The great depression of the 1930s was catastrophic for all workers. But as expected, Blacks suffered worse, pushed out of unskilled jobs previously scorned by whites before the depression. Blacks faced unemployment of 50% or more compared with the 30% for whites. Black wages were at least 30% below those of white workers, who themselves were barely at subsistence level.