POL SCI 21A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mississippi John Hurt, Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith
13 Dec 2017
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What were some of the social conditions that limited african. In 1896 plessy vs ferguson supreme court case stated that it was constitutional to hold separate but equal facilities. The grandfather clause stated that if your grandfather had been a slave, that you do not have the right to vote. The one drop rule if a person is known to have one drop of. African blood they are defined as a second class citizen. 1870 education african and indian children must attend separate schools. A separate school would be established upon the written request of the parents of ten. The blues is a feeling, a music, a sound, a story; it is at the core of jazz. It can be heard in the field hollers of those that had to work on the plantations during slavery, in early african. It is the translation of the african american experience of slavery into sound, first through vocals, then through instruments.
