Grandfather clause

The constitution 's 13th amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States, but provided an exception in cases where persons have been 'duly convicted ' in the United States and territory it controls, which states that slavery or involuntary servitude can be reimposed as a punishment. African Americans as a whole make up 13.6 percent of the entire U.S. population, but black men reportedly make up 40.2 percent of all prison inmates. There are more African American men in…

African-Americans, that the white people of the South were still in charge. Disfranchisement was a way in which white people thought up bogus ideas to keep blacks from voting. The ways they did this included: poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause. The Convict Lease was a program in which farm owners could get African- American prisoners leased to them and when one would die, another would be sent to you. WEB Du Bois, a black historian and sociologist, labeled this as the new…

discriminatory barriers were designed to encourage lower-cals whites to retain a sense of superiority over blacks…” (Alexander 34). Some example of segregation law that were deliberately created to prevent African American to vote are poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and the literacy and comprehension test. This was created because the whites knew that they were poor and could not pay the tax and due to slavery, they did not have any descendants who had voted before. In the Brown VS. Board of…

Furthermore, blacks were prohibited from participating and voting in public elections. The law required blacks to pass literacy tests before they could vote, and most blacks failed the test because they could not read or write. On the other hand, the Grandfather Clause further suppressed African Americans, and it worked in the Caucasian’s favor. It indicated that they did not have to pass the reading test to vote if their ancestors voted before the Civil War. Moreover, the laws charged money to…

Residing in the unincorporated Tattnall County outside of Reidsville, GA is the home of Georgia’s Department of Corrections (GDC), formerly the Georgia Industrial Institute, purchased by the state in 1937 for approximately 1.3 million dollars. The facility had renovation done in 2007. The prison originally housed juvenile delinquents. It’s now a medium security state prison. This prison is the oldest still running correctional institution in the state of Georgia. Just like Georgia’s state prison…

Southern states denied African Americans from voting through voting restrictions such as the poll tax, grandfather clause, and the literacy test. Jim Crow Laws separated blacks and whites in restaurants, schools, theaters, railroads, hospitals, and all other public places. The Jim Crow Laws were clearly passed to ensure that black people could not dot eh same…

The first was the poll tax. This tax required all people voting in the south to pay a tax. The second was the grandfather clause which exempted whites from voting restriction. The third was the literacy test, that disqualified anyone predominantly blacks who could not read from voting. These requirements reduced black voting to three percent and eliminated all opposition…

War is something that has divided everyone in every way since the dawn of time. Since Mesopotamia and its constant raging of battle, and up to the ongoing Yemeni civil war, either you’ve been for war or against it. It tends to be along the lines of if you’re raised in a god-loving home where your dad is the breadwinner, and your mom stays home to take care of you because that’s just “how it is” you might think war is always necessary and the lives that it costs are for a good cause. If you’re…

Since the birth of our nation, African Americans have undergone significant changes from slavery, the Reconstruction era and eventually the civil rights movement. These battles have been fought by prominent leaders both black and white. Some examples of early African American struggles include vicious crimes from southern whites that resulted in nearly zero prosecutions, voting rights controlled by violence and intimidation and sharecropping which kept them in debt. Certain laws were ignored…

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed into effect the Emancipation Proclamation, the immortal document that ended the tragedy of American slavery forever. This legislation allowed America to finally live out its traditional values of liberty and equality for all and signalled the apex of forward movement and social mobility in the U.S. Once the Civil War had come to a close in May 1865, the terms of the Emancipation Proclamation finally revealed themselves fully to all…