POLS 3530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jim Crow Laws, Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Literacy Test
16 Feb 2018
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Race and party competition in america part ii. After the civil war ended, southern legislatures passed black codes, laws to restrict rights of former slaves: restricted movement, established curfews, denied rights to own property. Jim crow laws: passed by southern states after reconstruction, legal mandate for segregation, others abridged voting rights. The kkk was organized after the civil war ended. Congressional republicans tried to remake the south: freedman"s bureau created to assist former slaves, federal troops remained in the south to enforce codes. Civil rights acts: 1866: guaranteed property rights of blacks, 1870: 15th amendment gave all citizens the right to vote. Made civil rights a full- edged division of the justice department. Authorized u. s. attorney general to seek injunctions and le civil suits in voting rights cases. Fluctuations in voting enfranchisement, 1790 - 1921: 1944: poll taxes reduced turnout to 18% as opposed to 69% in non-poll tax states, imposition of literacy tests, 1855 - 1924.
