HILD 2A-B-C Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Grandfather Clause, Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Literacy Test
19 Mar 2018
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The south at the turn of the century. Reconstruction ends violently at different times, state by state. After reconstruction was 70 years of horror (until civil rights movement) 20-25 years between end of reconstruction and formal disenfranchisement of black people. Laws for systematic segregation (apartheid system) didn(cid:821)t happen until end of 19th century (cid:824)"edemption(cid:825) Recall: during 1876, southern states fell back to democratic rule. Process involved volume and the north becomes less involved with upholding black vote rights. 1877: when president hayes becomes president (through shady deal), pulls troops out of south and put to west, letting south do (cid:820)home rule(cid:821) Redeemers in south passed vagrancy laws which reinstituted black codes, increased penalties for petty theft. Punishment was incarceration but also leased them out as laborers for federal government. Hired out all convicts as basically cheap labor for lumber, railroad companies and for landowners. If hired as convict labor, meant hired far away from families.
