HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 8 Outline of Last Lecture i Definitions ii Grant s Peace Policy iii 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty Outline of Current Lecture iv Convict Lease System v Plessy v Ferguson vi One Drop Rule vii Mississippi Plan viii African American Response Convict Lease System the south would arrest blacks and the ones who were convicted of a crime they were leased out to the north for them to use as laborers Texas was the only state with 50 were blacks and 50 were whites when the 13th amendment arrived which states that Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction Plessy v Ferguson In 1892 Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the White car of the East Louisiana Railroad Plessy could easily pass for white but under Louisiana law he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the Colored car When Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act legally segregating common carriers in 1892 a black civil rights organization decided to challenge the law in the courts Plessy sat in the white section and identified himself as black These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute He was arrested and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court Plessy s lawyer argued that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth One Drop Rule anyone who had a drop of negro blood was considered black the whites were trying to maintain white supremacy Mississippi Plan the democratic party wanted to overthrow the republican party so they can have political control poll tax money had to be paid in order to vote literacy test a test on state laws the goal was to make sure blacks couldn t vote Grandfather Clause January 1 1870 if your grandfather was able to vote before that time then you were exempt from taking the literacy test African American Response Accommodation confrontation separatism Atlanta Compromise Booker T Washington said they should avoid confrontation over segregation and instead pursue selfimprovement such as education and focus economic advancement in the black community and soon whites will see how important blacks are to the economy W E B Dubois thought otherwise blacks should fight back because if they didn t then it would be interpreted as sign of surrender given most blacks were farmers and a part of the poor class they were in no position to fight back they were forced to accommodate so that they could be in position to fight back
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