The Jim Crow era was a savage and brutal duration in American history that revealed how African-Americans were viewed in the eyes of the white southerners. Throughout the late 1870s and the early 1900s white southerners prioritized their views and power to enforce racial oppression with the use of multiple methods. The use of lynch mobs focused to instill terror into the hearts of the African-American population not only to secure fear of the white population, but to also forfeit their faith in the justice system. Harassment of white supremacy induced the African-Americans to lose the little power that they had to make change with the use of voter registration barriers that generated a political system that was dominated by white Democrats.
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Such barriers consisted of a poll tax that not only required for payment to vote, but also for African-Americans to choose if the money was worth it or if it was more crucial to their family as many of them could not afford to waste their finances. Another barrier that was implemented was based on education. With the knowledge that not many African-Americans were well educated or had any form of education at all as to the fact that slavery had just become illegal not so long ago. White Southerners used this to their advantage and initiated literacy tests that were solely designed to deprive blacks from becoming qualified to register to …show more content…
As the “old South rested everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth” the South was now in a position to discover a new way to develop their economy. (Course Reader 7). With the South used to a heavy reliance on the cheap to nearly free massive labor force that it received from slavery, white southerners grew a negative new view on what the now free African-Americans purpose was in the states. Decided that the white race was superior then the African-American race the white southerners composed a division to keep superiority.
This segregation of the South led to two separate facilities for the black and white population to help with the isolation of the African-American race. The facilities for the white population were fit for casual accommodations whereas the facilities for the black population were set to fit second rated citizens. With segregation there was a social and physical split. This split between races caused an unjust position for African-Americans within the
Such barriers consisted of a poll tax that not only required for payment to vote, but also for African-Americans to choose if the money was worth it or if it was more crucial to their family as many of them could not afford to waste their finances. Another barrier that was implemented was based on education. With the knowledge that not many African-Americans were well educated or had any form of education at all as to the fact that slavery had just become illegal not so long ago. White Southerners used this to their advantage and initiated literacy tests that were solely designed to deprive blacks from becoming qualified to register to …show more content…
As the “old South rested everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth” the South was now in a position to discover a new way to develop their economy. (Course Reader 7). With the South used to a heavy reliance on the cheap to nearly free massive labor force that it received from slavery, white southerners grew a negative new view on what the now free African-Americans purpose was in the states. Decided that the white race was superior then the African-American race the white southerners composed a division to keep superiority.
This segregation of the South led to two separate facilities for the black and white population to help with the isolation of the African-American race. The facilities for the white population were fit for casual accommodations whereas the facilities for the black population were set to fit second rated citizens. With segregation there was a social and physical split. This split between races caused an unjust position for African-Americans within the