MC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968), Grandfather Clause, Alexis De Tocqueville
13 Dec 2016
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Democracy in America -Racial tyranny of the majority and the 20th century American civil rights
movement
• Supremacy of whites and iferiorit of laks
• Tocqueville, racisms in the north is more acute than racisms in south. North- legal rights
have been given to blacks but in general whites have superiorities. Whereas in south-
slavery is still legal so they generally overall have more power than African Americans
• Tocqueville (PG 400-401)- the prejudie of the aster, the prejudie of rae ad fiall
the prejudie of the hites.
• Dubois argues that the era of reconstruction did not achieve what it had to achieve
leading to the rise of Jim Crow.
Research question: is there evidence of an ongoing racial tyranny of the majority?
➢ Main argument: Jim crow laws (1892-1965) perpetuated racial tyranny of the white
majority via political, economic and social exclusion.
➢ Black Codes (1865-1877)
- Blacks codes are the laws are part of the larger pattern of suppression from the
southern whites on blacks.
➢ Pless s Ferguso -1896
- Pless ought a first lass trai tiket o a Whites ol trai ad as asked to
leave but he argued that they were taking away his 13th and 14th amendment rights.
➢ Jim crow & Racial tyranny (II)
- Political participation
o Legal disenfranchisement
o Poll taxes
▪ Had a egatie ipat o poor hites, it as ofte tie used
together with the grandfather clauses- if you could prove that your
grandfather voted prior to the abolishment of slavery- you would be
exempted from the tax
o Grandfather Clauses-
▪ These tests were confusing and time consuming and if you were
illiterate white male, if you proved your grandfather votes prior to the
abolishment of slavery- you did not have to take the test and you
could vote.
o Intimidation
▪ when these did not work, the old communities went to threats and
violent forms of it and threats of losing your job. Many instances local
police were suppressing the blacks from voting
- Labor and land ownership
o Sharecropping
▪ Croppers= forced labor
- Criminal justice
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