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Life after Reconstruction

Life after Reconstruction. The South Takes Back Power. After Reconstruction officially ends in 1876 governments in the South were again run by Southerners Southern legislatures began to pass Jim Crow Laws – laws that created and enforced segregation

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Life after Reconstruction

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  1. Life after Reconstruction

  2. The South Takes Back Power After Reconstruction officially ends in 1876 governments in the South were again run by Southerners Southern legislatures began to pass Jim Crow Laws – laws that created and enforced segregation Laws ranged from requiring separate railroad cars for blacks and whites, separate schools, even separate bathrooms

  3. Homer Plessy In Louisiana, Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a white only railcar His case made it to the Supreme Court In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” facilities did not violate the 14th Amendment This case allowed for legal discrimination for the next 60 years

  4. Violence Against African-Americans • Throughout the entire nation (not just the South) blacks were discriminated against • African-Americans could be arrested just for looking at white women • Lynchings occurred throughout the country • Between 1882 and 1892 nearly 900 African-Americans died by lynching • African-Americans lost most of the gains they had made during Reconstruction

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