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Mind Map by l147walker, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by l147walker
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Civil Rights
- 15th Ammendment
- Gave BA adults the right to vote.
- Said nobody should lose the right to vote because of race or
colour.
- Gave BA adults the right to vote.
- Black people and rights to vote
- 1867 black men given right to vote.
- States made it harder for black people to vote.
- By 1900 few black people to vote.
- If they couldn't vote they couldn't elect
politicians to fight against Jim Crow
laws.
- Had to register to vote.
- Many Southern states made up
series of rules (voting
qualifications) which made it
difficult for blacks to vote.
- Some states had to
pay poll tax.
- Rate set so high most blacks countn't
afford to pay - no tax paid, no vote
made.
- Some states had
literacy tests.
- Black men who went to register to vote were threatened and beaten up.
- 1867 black men given right to vote.
- Dates
- 1861 - Civil war
- 1863 - End to
slavery (abolished -
North won Civil war).
- 1868 - Change to
constitution (Blacks to
be treated same as
whites).
- 1861 - Civil war
- 13th Ammendment
- Slavery legally abloished.
- FG tried to give greater CR to blacks.
- Southern states used
"Jim Crow" laws to
maintain segregated
society.
- South wanted whites authority to
keep control over black population
- Slavery legally abloished.
- Jim Crow Laws
- Name for all sorts of laws to keep black and
white seperate and black people denied Civil
- 50 seperate states and own state government - can pass own laws affecting life
within state.
- Most JCL passed between
1870 and 1900.
- State Of Mississippi
- Seperate schools to be maintained for
children of white and coloured races
- Wanted to keep segregated society
- Seperate but equal facilities
- Little done to stop JCL fully legal
- 1892, black man:- Homer Plessy objected
moving from seat on train because it was
reserved for white. He was arrested. Argued
JCL broke FG law, he lost the case.
- Supreme court decided it was acceptable for black and whites to be
segregated as long as equal facilities provided
- Seperate schools to be maintained for
children of white and coloured races
- State of Florida
- Marriages between a white
person and negro are prohibited
- Marriages between a white
person and negro are prohibited
- Name for all sorts of laws to keep black and
white seperate and black people denied Civil
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