SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Atlanta Compromise, Grandfather Clause, White Primaries
Document Summary
Du bois was the first black phd student. Wrote a book called the black reconstruction. Affects the way people try to see in and effects how the person can see. The civil war was not about liberating black people. Didn"t want equality between blacks and whites. Doesn"t believe blacks should have the right to vote, serve on juries, or allowed to intermarry with whites. 14th amendment: citizenship rights and equal protection under the law (1868) Sent federal troops into the south to make them comply. Black sugar workers: organized a union. Black women went into domestic work (to white women) Literacy and property requirements with grandfather clause loopholes for whites based on voting status of parents; plus white primary to exclude even those who managed to vote (only could vote for democratic primary if you were white) Never an issue in slavery because blacks were property. Hypodescent: racial mixing created problem with color line, especially problematic after slavery.
