HIST 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Southern Democrats, White Southerners, Gunnar Myrdal
25 Feb 2020
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Wwii for us was one of the three most important turning points up to this moment in. Intelligence tests, literacy tests, weird things about registering: example: open from 2-3pm, only on the third thursday of every month dumb. In public places: black people are supposed to be deferential to whites: don"t make eye contact, pay respect, step off sidewalk to let them pass, don"t do anything that can be perceived threatening. Wwii era was so important because it started a process of significant change in tearing down the jim crow system. Women"s movement = anti-immigrant sentiments ran very high in late 19th and early. Migrants to the us at this time who were singled out as being seen as undesirable element: chinese coming to the west coast, early 1880s congress passes chinese exclusion tax, not racially fit for coming to us .
