HISTORY 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Halloween Costume, Grandfather Clause, Literacy Test
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Huge shift to department stores, enormous palaces of consumption. Credit: not bad to have credit, but bad to have consumptive debt, you were supposed to have productive debt, like a loan to start a business. 1880-1900 louisiana slashed education budgets so severely after redemption that the literacy rate among whites went down. 1900 no public high school for blacks in the entire south and elementary schools were as bad as stables according to one observer. 1900 southern per capital income only 60% of the national average. 1900 blacks own a smaller percentage of land than at the end of. 1915 the grandfather clause struck down by the supreme court: result: 1894 there were 130,000 blacks registered to vote, 1904 there were only 1,342. Black and white poor disenfranchisement through poll taxes, literacy tests, and tests to determine one"s understanding of the state constitution. Legal basis for discrimination: 1883 civil rights cases, which invalidated the civil rights.
