01:512:381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ku Klux Klan, Thirteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Convict Lease
14 Nov 2016
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African american women reformers behind and against the color line. Abridging the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. Creation and passage of black codes of 1860s. Rise of klu klux klan - use of terror to limit rights of african americans. Around 1872/1877 reconstruction is over -- nobody really cares anymore and the quality of life basically reverts back to what it was. 13th amendment was basically violated through penal codes (convict lease). Heavily limits the rights in the court of law, physical intimidation, lots of laws passed that kept. African americans from actually using those three amendments. North wasn"t so much by the book segregation but more so societal segregation. Still a toxic environment (nobody makes laws don"t really happen) Segregation is created in the late 19th century. Each of you now take a few minutes: review the piece on wells and the source by her; and review the piece about brown.
