Effects Of Segregation On African Americans

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Chapter 5
1) Emancipation decentralized the Negro population to Newark, Boston, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, New York, Albany and Border states.

2) They imposed taxes and various literacy tests on blacks. Furthermore they used the method of segregation to disenfranchise during the period of Reconstruction.

Chapter 6
1) Sharecropping badly effected on black slaves because on the small farms there were not enough people to sing songs along like the big farms. So, the tradition of singing songs along with cropping was not been followed by people. Blues originated from slave songs were not about labor. These songs reflected the individual lives of slaves.

Chapter 7
1) Country blues was beginning of traditional music and medium for folklore alternatively

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