Ferguson in which the Supreme Court rules that segregation is legal as long as it is equal (“separate but equal”). This gave the legal basis for Jim Crow laws in which they did indeed separate races in areas such as schools, hospitals, and transportation, but in no way made accommodations equal. While the 15th Amendment did give the right to vote to African American men, those voting rights were effectively stripped away through both laws and intimidation. Poll taxes, property and literacy requirements, and grandfather clauses all barred African American men from voting. Black Codes also denied basic rights to African Americans, such as those in Mississippi, which included such things as no marriage between races and if an African American broke a contract for a job and left, they could be captured and brought back to their employer, forfeiting all wages (The New York Times, Black Codes of Mississippi (1865), p. 4). The founding of the Ku Klux Klan, whose goal and purpose was to perpetuate white supremacy and protect white women, contributed enormously to the terrorization of African Americans in the
Ferguson in which the Supreme Court rules that segregation is legal as long as it is equal (“separate but equal”). This gave the legal basis for Jim Crow laws in which they did indeed separate races in areas such as schools, hospitals, and transportation, but in no way made accommodations equal. While the 15th Amendment did give the right to vote to African American men, those voting rights were effectively stripped away through both laws and intimidation. Poll taxes, property and literacy requirements, and grandfather clauses all barred African American men from voting. Black Codes also denied basic rights to African Americans, such as those in Mississippi, which included such things as no marriage between races and if an African American broke a contract for a job and left, they could be captured and brought back to their employer, forfeiting all wages (The New York Times, Black Codes of Mississippi (1865), p. 4). The founding of the Ku Klux Klan, whose goal and purpose was to perpetuate white supremacy and protect white women, contributed enormously to the terrorization of African Americans in the