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Post Reconstruction Society

Post Reconstruction Society. Different approaches to challenging discrimination in the late 19 th century. Social Discrimination. Jim Crow Name from a popular minstrel character De jure (by law) Upheld by Plessey v Ferguson, 1896 Defacto (by fact) Informal, by social conventions .

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Post Reconstruction Society

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  1. Post Reconstruction Society Different approaches to challenging discrimination in the late 19th century

  2. Social Discrimination • Jim Crow • Name from a popular minstrel character • De jure (by law) • Upheld by Plessey v Ferguson, 1896 • Defacto (by fact) • Informal, by social conventions

  3. Economic Discrimination • Workers give 1/3 of crop in lease payments • Crop-lien system, cycle of debt • Goal to be tenants and then land owners

  4. Political Discrimination • Literacy Tests • Poll Taxes • Grandfather Clause • White Primaries • Mississippi v Williams, 1898

  5. Lynching • Ritualized mob violence, intended to terrorize • In the 1890’s, on average 111 African Americans were lynched per year (white avg. 43/year) • New Orleans riot of 1900

  6. Tunis Campbell: Self-Reliance • Buys 1,250 acres in McIntosh County, GA in 1866 • Establishes an association of black landowners • All African American militia protects landowners

  7. Booker T. Washington: Accommodation • Born a slave in Virginia • Works his way through Hampton Institute • Up From Slavery • Founds Tuskegee Institute, 1881 • “Atlanta Compromise,” 1892

  8. W.E.B. DuBois: Confrontation • Born in the Massachusetts • Attends Fisk College • First African American Ph.D. from Harvard University • “Talented Tenth” • Niagara Movement • NAACP

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