HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 8 Outline of Last Lecture i. Definitionsii. Grant’s Peace Policyiii. 1867 Medicine Lodge TreatyOutline of Current Lecture iv. Convict-Lease Systemv. Plessy v. Fergusonvi. One Drop Rulevii. Mississippi Planviii. 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 blackThese 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 FourteenthOne Drop Rule-anyone who had a drop of “negro blood” was considered black-the whites were trying to maintain white supremacyMississippi 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 testAfrican-American Response- Accommodation, confrontation, separatism-Atlanta Compromise- Booker T. Washington said they should avoid confrontation over segregation and instead pursue self- improvement 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
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