Grandfather clause

The Reconstruction occurred within the United States between the years 1863 and 1877. This period was much needed after the Civil War that had previously occurred. The civil war had essentially split the country and left many questions concerning how the United States could rebuild and move forward as a whole. The country worked to heal the northern and southern states, as both had been largely affected by the war. Additionally, there was a pull between presidential and congressional powers, as…

freed people oppressed (Foner, 7-11). Jim Crow laws were another way to oppress freed people. They were state and local laws created to keep segregation and to prevent African Americans from voting. To do so, poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clauses were put into effect. This kept poor, unlearned, and African Americans with a formerly enslaved family…

Inequality beyond Class and Race According to Merriam-Webster, inequality is defined as an unfair situation in which some people have more rights or better opportunities than other people. In Paul Frymer book Uneasy Alliance, he shows inequality among race and parties is still seen in America democracy today. He demonstrates to his readers that not all groups are treated equally but more government officials are more responsive to white swing voters than any other voter. Frymer’s theory affirms…

What is the difference between a white man and a black man? One thing, the color of their skin, a simple pigment difference. Both are still human beings, both cry the same tears, bleed the same blood, and love to the same extent. Yet, there was a time when some whites treated blacks like property, inferior creatures, and the U.S. is still struggling to heal that wound. Ever since the beginning of the Slave Trade, race relations have been and continue to be a central issue in American…

After the increase of political dominations, more of the southern states began to authorize segregation laws toward African Americans. The Jim Crow law, poll tax, and the Grandfather clause were all typical laws that limited the rights of the color race. Their disenfranchisement created the reshape of freedom among the society and the idea of “separate but equal” was established. On 1896, the famous Supreme Court case of Plessy…

The emergence of segregation and disfranchisement offered a solution that industrialization and modernization presented for the South. Who controls it? The controversial presidential election of 1876 lead to the Compromise of 1877. This effectively marked the end of the Reconstruction era. This resulted in the Republican party withdrawing troops from the South and gradually lead to the development of the “New South”. Historians view the development of the “New South” as a tragedy. C. Vann…

Race and racial inequality have powerfully shaped American history from the very beginning. Americans think of the founding of the American colonies and, later, the United States, as driven by the quest for freedom when initially, religious liberty and later political and economic liberty. Still, from the beginning, American society was equally founded on brutal forms of domination, inequality, and oppression which lead to the foundation of two models of minority exclusion known as Apartheid and…

Introduction Comedian Penn Jillette is convinced that the joke is dead. The executioner? Political correctness and a heightened sensitivity to offending people. Jillette thinks that most of the best jokes have a sense of mean-spiritedness, and since mean-spiritedness is out, comedians are mostly limited to mediocrity. He says that, “You used to feel safer telling jokes. Since all your best material is mean-spirited, you feel less safe. You’re worried some might think you really have that type…

With her best friend Ann Stoker she would also hang around the Fleet at Portsmouth and Southsea. (A photograph of the two, both inexplicably in boiler suits, shows a hefty young Monica not displayed to best advantage next to the more petite Ann.) They had to avoid her brother Bunny if he was in port and likewise her Uncle Gerald, brother of Henry, who was captain of the battleship Repulse. With another friend she used to drive up to Oxford and Cambridge, a wind-up gramophone in the back of her…

The post-Civil War marked a new revolution. Despite the abolishment of slavery and the freedom of African Americans during this era, segregation, political marginality, degraded educational opportunities and religion shaped their lives. (p. 184). Freedom was their new promise and it meant no more chains, lashes, or exploitation; unfortunately, blacks were met with new requisitions. In the African-American Odyssey stated that most white Americans did not suddenly abandon 250 years of deeply…