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Segregation Discrimination Voting Restrictions Jim Crow Plessy v. Fergusen Legal Discrimination 1877-1887 Blacks voted and held some offices in South; but less and less Southern states instituted laws to remove this power Voting restrictions Varied by state Some had literacy laws Some charged a Poll Tax Many added the Grandfather Clause Only those whose Grandfather could vote before 1867 could vote Jim Crow laws 1870s – 1880s Segregation laws were passed to prohibit black access to public buildings facilities Schools, hospitals, transportation “Jim Crow” character from minstrel show 1896 Challenge: Plessy v. Fergusen P. 290 Courts said: Separate But Equal is Legal Can separate ever be “Equal”? Race Relations Jim Crow in the South Racial Etiquette in the North Blacks not accepted in White hotels, restaurants, schools Restrictions in some- to ‘Black Section’ Followed to avoid trouble: Yield sidewalk to whites Remove hats to whites Do NOT look whites in the eye Consequences for being an ‘upstart’ In South: Shot, burned or hanged w/o trial In North: Denied jobs, homes, union memberships Riots retaliations follow any acts of resistance Discrimination in the West Mexicans Hired mostly on Railroads Farm labor Forced to work for less than whites Many forced into debt peonage Sharecropping Until outlawed 1911 Chinese Faced segregation on jobs, schools, homes Anti-Chinese movement: Chinese Exclusion Act * *