POLITSC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jim Crow Laws, Emancipation Proclamation, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
4 Feb 2018
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Nobody had the majority of the electoral votes. Northern people said if you give us those 20 votes (to hayes), we"ll pull northern troops out of the south . So they did, but then the jim crow laws happened. Between 1880 and 1910, southern states passed new state constitutions creating de jure segregation through poll taxes, literacy tests, etc. Today black students still lag in math and reading (as opposed to white students) Median household net worth shows huge di erences racially. Institutional or systemic racism is like when the odds are stacked against a race because of the way things are set up, like it"s kind of indirect. Education and income inequality is due to unequal educational opportunities which are due to school segregation which is due to neighborhood segregation which is due to house, banking, and real estate policies. Had provisional accreditation for 15 years, like they weren"t meeting state standards.
