The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
In 1863 Jim Crow was performing black face in major production halls. Jim Crow became a simble of racial discrimation. The erra of Jim Crow had begon at this time. This erra was a time were Jim Crow pushed for blacks have there rights taken from them. During the Jim Crow erra a lot of resterants and bathrooms had signs hanging outside that said coloreds only. Many blacks were fighting to start their commintuies because they felt this was the only way they would have rights.
In 1919 the Klu Kluc Klan ( KKK) became a national power. The Klan was major powerhouse behind Jim Crow. Blacks were not just going to stand by and let the Klan have control over them, so b;acks used the power of the press and the courts to fight back against the klan.
Then the video placed itself back to when Lincoln was presdent of the united states. The narrator talked about how Lincoln did not want the war to be about freeing slaves but , for the war to be about saving the union. During this times the balcks thought that linciln was fighting for them and all they wanted was to have rights. These rights consisted of land , education, ablity to vote ,, but mosting importantly was alnd they believe if theey owned land they were free. In South Carolina blacks had built their own schools, churches and communitys , on the land that they were given during the war. When Andrew Jackson was eleceted into office he did not like the idea fro blacks have their own land. So Andrew Jackson orderd Oliver O Howard a Christian general to remove the black people off the land they had made their homes. Oliver Howard called ammeting at the town hall and some were around 2,000 people attended.
In 1866 Congress passed the 14th and 15th amendments because the south was not looking out for the better intreates of the blacks. At this time reconstruction had began. Around the time reconstruction had began , most black people felt that they did not have to work in the fields or work at hard labor jobs. So they started electing other black man into office so that they could have rights and voice in the government. Also these officals helped with getting schools and education for the black population.
At this time the KKK wanted all of the ex-slaves to fall back into place were they belonged. This was when the shootings and the burning of the crosses started to happen acrossed that southern part of the United States. President U.S. Grant brought hope for blacks. President Grant sent troops to fight the members of the KKK and groups like it.
Blacks looks for hope in Pat Singleton, because he wanted to leave the south were he thought they would never be free. Singleton, lead almost three hundred slaves to the state of Kansas. Many blacks of the time felt that God was in Kansas, but getting to Kansas was like going through hell. There was much sickness and lack of food , so many people died along the path to Kansas. Although Singleton though this was a great idea , Fredrick Douglas felt that moving out of the south was not the answer.
In 1877 Raeford B. Hayes pulled all the Federal troops from the south . He felt that reconstruction was over and that whites should take back over the land that first owned. This really effected black share-croppers, because this meant that white were taking back their land and they could make the laws about how the debt was paid back to the white land owners. The whites fixed the scales to were the black share-cropper would not have the correct amount of crops for the year. Also many blacks could not add or do the calculations that the whites used to figure out the amount of debt that was paid, so they could not tell if the white land owner was doing then wrong. This problem proved that education was the best way for blacks to become equal.
With this idea Booker T. Washington built a school and brought in teachers. The school was named the Tuskegee school. This school was for teaching blacks a lot of different skills. It became a large school of somewhere around 400 students and 20 teachers. The leaders of the school made white land owners believe that, they were only teaching black men and women to better the skills they had not to learn new skills. This meant they would be taught to be better cooks or landscapers, but this came to be a lye. Many whites had black nannies and they were very upset that there white children had come to like and sometimes even love their black nannies. Whites at that time were not very