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New Jim Crow - I. The death of slavery (The end of the civil war (The…
New Jim Crow - I. The death of slavery
The end of the civil war
The postemancipation period
Woodward claimed that new form of racial control are required
New stringent police laws were made to control the black people.
During the Reconstruction Era, the conditions for African Americans did improve
II. The Birth of Jim Crow
As African American sought for greater social and economic equality, whites reacted with panic and outrage
The new formed Populist Party viewed that the privileged classes and racists together to keep poor whites and blacks in an inferior position
The Populists reconciled to the pressure and betrayed their African American allies
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“It is altogether probable that during the curt Popillist upheaval in the nineties Negroes and native whites achieved a greater comity of mind and harmony of political purpose than ever before or since in the South.” (Alexander 33) It is an inference showing that the black's statue is the same as the poor white. No matter how skilled the blacks are, they can be only accepted by the poor whites.
“Ku Klux Klan fought a terrorist campaign against Reconstruction governments and local leaders, complete with bombings lynchings, and mob violence.” (Alexander 30) Terrorists always think themselves as the "saviour" choosing the right side of a problem. Even though they abolished laws that segregates white and black, the concept of being equal is stil not accepted.
Labors health problem are concerned.
Death rates were shockingly high, for the private contractors had no interest in the health and well-being of their laborers, unlike the earlier slave-owners, at a minimum, to be healthy enough to survive hard labor.
After the death of slavery, the institution of racism and segregationist survived. In the Southern States, the freedmen were still regarded inferior by white supremacists. The rage of the poor whites instigated by segregationist and struggle of plantation economy was utilized by the politicians to promote and legitimate a new racial caste system.
Literacy rates climbed
15 percent of Southern elected officials were black.
--however, some African Americans are too poor to afford the protection
“We have the power to pass stringent police lawThe convict laws, especially the vagrancy laws, enacted as a great part of control the freedmen." (Alexander, 28) It is ionic that they say they set the black free, but still having separate laws controlling different races. They free them because of pressure from society or war, but they kind of still have the sense of segregation within them.
release of slaves resulted that former plantation owners destitute.
White people were afraid of “amalgamation” with black people
“Southern whites, Woodward explains, strongly believed that a new system of racial control was clearly required, but it was not immediately obvious what form it should take (Alexander 27)” Even after the end of slavery, it is a kind of Physiological response that white people are "afraid" of black.
Abolishment of the slavery and the idea of race lived on
"In the antebellum South, the lowliest white person at least possessed his or her white skin - a badge of superiority over even the most skilled slave or prosperous free African American. (Alexander, 27) The contrast between two extremes made a clear difference showing the audiences how serious the segregations are. Whites are always the predominant.
At the end of the slavey and the beginning of the Jim Crow, even though black are not statuously lower than the whites, they are still discriminated because of racism. The whites always hold supremacy upon the black and adding oppressions on them.