A Political Crisis: The “Compromise” of 1877 Hayes becomes the President He orders the removal of all Federal troops from the South And this leads to…
The “Invisible Empire of the South” Ninety years of White Supremacist Terrorism 1870s to 1960s
Sharecropping
Sharecroppers in cotton field
“Exodusters” – Black Homesteaders to Kansas – 1870s
Ku Klux Klan – most notorious terrorist organization in American history. Founded in 1867 by former Confederate officers, including Nathan Bedford Forrest
Jim Crow – a stock character of Minstrel shows
Jim Crow laws the name given to racial segregation (separation) laws that existed throughout America (but particularly in the South) from the end to Reconstruction until the 1960s
“Jim Crow” drinking fountain, Oklahoma City, 1939
Segregated movie theater, Leland, Mississippi, 1939
Segregated “separate but equal” school in Virginia, early 1900s Plessy v Ferguson (1895) Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was legal as long as the accomodations were “substantially equal Segregated “separate but equal” school in Virginia, early 1900s
Segregated bus station in 1930s
Wall built in Detroit, Michigan, to separate white neighborhoods from black neighborhoods
Restaurant in Alaska, early 1900s
Newport News, Virginia 1901
Prison work gang, South Carolina, 1940’s
Lynching of Reuben Stacy Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, July 19, 1935
The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, a large gathering of lynchers. August 7, 1930, Marion, Indiana.
Cleveland Advocate, January 19, 1918
Bennie Simmons – soaked alive in coal oil before being set on fire Anadarko, Oklahoma June 13, 1913
Graph of lynchings in the United States over time
90% of the victims were Southern 73% of the victims were black According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,742 lynchings occurred between 1882-1968. 90% of the victims were Southern 73% of the victims were black 27% of the victims were white <Http://faculty.berea.edu/browners/chesnutt/classroom/lynching_table_year.html> Tuskegee Institute statistics
Race riot, Wilmington, North Carolina 1898
Race riot that destroyed the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921
A. Phillip Randolph with Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the 1930s
Lt James Reese &15th NY Regimental Band