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Jim Crow

Jim Crow. Overview. Post Civil War Reconstruction Legal Struggle Social Struggle. Post Civil War. Radical Republicans Unionists Dixiecrats Black people. Radical Republicans. Punish South Reapply for statehood Expropriate rebel leaders Empower Republican Party

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Jim Crow

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  1. Jim Crow

  2. Overview • Post Civil War Reconstruction • Legal Struggle • Social Struggle

  3. Post Civil War • Radical Republicans • Unionists • Dixiecrats • Black people

  4. Radical Republicans • Punish South • Reapply for statehood • Expropriate rebel leaders • Empower Republican Party • Enfranchise Black voters

  5. Unionists • Preserve Federal government • Amnesty for Rebels • Revitalization of southern economy

  6. Dixiecrats • Reestablish pre-war political order • Reestablish pre-war racial labor system

  7. Black people • Family reunification • Economic empowerment • Freedmen’s Bureau

  8. Legal Struggle • Black Codes • Amendments and Civil Rights acts • Federal Courts

  9. Black Codes • Establish indentured servitude • Limit black political action

  10. Amendments and Civil Rights • Amendments • 13th • 14th • 15th • Civil rights legislation

  11. Lynchings • 1200 lynchings of African Americans • 1400 lynchings of Mexican Americans

  12. New Stereotypes • Myth of Black Rapist • health differences • intelligence • morality

  13. Nationalizing Race Theory • Social Darwinism • defined • movement to the rest of US • application to other “non-white races”

  14. The Ku Klux Klan

  15. 1924 • 1924=20 million • members • growth outside South (photo from Records of the United States Information Agency, Record Group 306, item 306-NT-650-4)

  16. Klan March 1920’s • Public grouping • Political organization • klan women

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