HIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White Southerners, White Supremacy, Anti-Racism
13 Dec 2018
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South after reconstruction: victims hanged, mutilated, burned alive, and shot, at the barbaric height of southern lynching, southerners lynched two to three african americans every week. Discrimination in employment and housing and the legal segregation of public and private life reflected the rise of a new jim crow south. In politics, de facto limitations of black voting had suppressed black voters since reconstruction: whites stuffed ballot boxes and intimidated black voters with physical and economic threats. Lost cause defenders mythologized their past, new south boosters struggled to wrench the. Industrial development and expanding infrastructure, rather than recreating the south, coexisted easily with white supremacy and an impoverished agricultural economy. Chapter 20: part 6: jim crow and african american life: america"s tragic racial history was not erased by the progressive era, reform removed african americans even father from american public life.
