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The Rise of Jim Crow

The Rise of Jim Crow. The South After the Reconstruction. The Civil War = 1861 - 1865 Reconstruction = 1865 - 1877. Jim Crow Laws. Varied by state Restricted marriage, voting, and working rights. Black Disenfranchisement . Literacy Tests Poll Taxes Grandfather’s Clause. Segregation.

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The Rise of Jim Crow

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  1. The Rise of Jim Crow

  2. The South After the Reconstruction • The Civil War = 1861 - 1865 • Reconstruction = 1865 - 1877

  3. Jim Crow Laws • Varied by state • Restricted marriage, voting, and working rights

  4. Black Disenfranchisement • Literacy Tests • Poll Taxes • Grandfather’s Clause

  5. Segregation

  6. PLESSY v. FERGUSON (1896)

  7. How did politicians respond to Jim Crow laws?

  8. The Fight to End Lynching • In the South = 80% of lynching victims were African American • Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors, 1892 • Of 728 lynching victims in 1892, 1/3 had been accused of interracial rape • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/themap/index.html

  9. Ida B. Wells

  10. Who is in the crowd, and who is not? What does it mean that these men, some of whom may have been responsible for the lynching, felt comfortable having their photograph taken with the victim’s body? Center, Texas 1920

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