The system of segregation was a law that separated the races. Many Southerners were upset that the former slaves had the same rights as everyone else after Lincoln declared them emancipated. The first Civil Rights Act passed in 1875 gave African Americans rights to be treated fairly in public and on public transportation. Ultimately, the court passed the Jim Crow laws separating the races in the South. In 1890, Louisiana had a separate car law that passed for black and whites. If blacks were found sitting in the white’s only area, they were fined. Plessy had a problem with legal segregation. He was a man that was seven eighths white and one eighth black who decided he would sit on the white’s only side of the railroad car. In the Plessy vs.
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The Southerners had formal and informal ways of depriving them. One way was a literacy test. Blacks had to read and explain the Constitution. If they could not pass it, they could not vote. Another was that they had to show proof of identification. Many did not own a birth certificate to be able to get an I.D. Also, the south tried to stop them from voting by a grandfather clause. If their family could not vote, they could not vote. Blacks had to own so much property to be able to vote. In addition, if African Americans could not pay a poll taxes, they were hindered from voting.
Third, the system of social deference was enforced by the white supremacy. They felt that black people should only be able to use back doors in white houses. Blacks had to eat in separate restaurants. They had to keep their heads facing the ground when walking down the street. Last but not least, there was absolutely no handshaking between whites and colored.
Fourth, there was a system of sexual deference. This caused black women to not any protection. They were considered property so anything could be done to them. However, the Southerners felt that African American males were sexually aggressive toward white women. Because they felt this way, they lynched Negro men in order to protect their …show more content…
Lynching, or hanging, was done to protect the white women. Any African American who spoke up got lynched. Those who wanted to start their own business were hung because whites thought that they would take their customers away and they felt threatened. The South went so far as displaying the lynching in public. From 1882 to 1964, 4,753 hangings were documented. Ida B. Wells was a journalist who wrote what happened to three of her friends. Her three associates included Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart who were owners of a grocery store in Memphis. An angry mob of whites came to “take care” of them and the owners fought back. Someone shot one of the white men and the store owners went to jail. Later they were taken out of town and killed. Mrs. Wells told the blacks to leave Memphis and to Boycott the white business. Ida Wells’ newspaper was destroyed and they issued a threat towards her. She moved to Chicago where she continued to inform people about lynching. Thankfully, in 1964 hanging was
The Southerners had formal and informal ways of depriving them. One way was a literacy test. Blacks had to read and explain the Constitution. If they could not pass it, they could not vote. Another was that they had to show proof of identification. Many did not own a birth certificate to be able to get an I.D. Also, the south tried to stop them from voting by a grandfather clause. If their family could not vote, they could not vote. Blacks had to own so much property to be able to vote. In addition, if African Americans could not pay a poll taxes, they were hindered from voting.
Third, the system of social deference was enforced by the white supremacy. They felt that black people should only be able to use back doors in white houses. Blacks had to eat in separate restaurants. They had to keep their heads facing the ground when walking down the street. Last but not least, there was absolutely no handshaking between whites and colored.
Fourth, there was a system of sexual deference. This caused black women to not any protection. They were considered property so anything could be done to them. However, the Southerners felt that African American males were sexually aggressive toward white women. Because they felt this way, they lynched Negro men in order to protect their …show more content…
Lynching, or hanging, was done to protect the white women. Any African American who spoke up got lynched. Those who wanted to start their own business were hung because whites thought that they would take their customers away and they felt threatened. The South went so far as displaying the lynching in public. From 1882 to 1964, 4,753 hangings were documented. Ida B. Wells was a journalist who wrote what happened to three of her friends. Her three associates included Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart who were owners of a grocery store in Memphis. An angry mob of whites came to “take care” of them and the owners fought back. Someone shot one of the white men and the store owners went to jail. Later they were taken out of town and killed. Mrs. Wells told the blacks to leave Memphis and to Boycott the white business. Ida Wells’ newspaper was destroyed and they issued a threat towards her. She moved to Chicago where she continued to inform people about lynching. Thankfully, in 1964 hanging was