AAS 330 Lecture 2: AAS 330 02.06
20 Feb 2019
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Decided not to move from the car, used 14th amendment to find out why rights were different among states. Supreme decides that separate but equal is okay, 7 to 1. Mississippi: had to be literate, but if you were illiterate men could still qualify if they could understand the constitution as read to them and decipher it. Voters had to put ballots for separate offices in different boxes. Order of boxes change throughout course of day. Only votes put in the correct box were counted. Georgia first to implement in 1871, then made it cumulative in 1877. Only 1-2 dollars but poor black and white sharecroppers didn"t have cash. Only men who had been eligible to vote before 1867, or whose father or grandfather had been eligible before that year, were qualified to vote. First mass movement of black folk out of the south in search of a promised land. Looking for freedom, possibility of creating all-black communities.
