White Privilege
The Civil Rights Movement Setting the Stage
Democracy Human Rights Legal equality Everybody is treated the same under the law Everybody has the right to due process (fair trial) Rule of Law (laws must be enforced) Government formed upon the consent of the governed Free and fair elections
Slavery
Slave States
Civil War
FREEDOM!!...? Thirteenth Amendment (1865) Fourteenth Amendment (1868) Slaves are granted freedom Fourteenth Amendment (1868) Ex-slaves are granted citizenship & equal protection under the law Fifteenth Amendment (1870) Race cannot be used to deny people the right to vote
A History of Racism Sharecropping Disenfranchisement Separate but equal Jim Crow laws Lynching Blackface
Sharecropping A system of agriculture where a farmer rents land in exchange for a percentage of the profits This system kept tenant farmers indebted and under the control White landowners who still owned most of the land
Disenfranchisement A series of tactic were used to keep Blacks from being allowed to vote Violence and Intimidation Literacy Tests Poll Taxes Grandfather Clauses
Disenfranchisement
Disenfranchisement in Canada Indigenous people weren’t given full voting rights until 1960 The Fair Elections Act (2014) was meant to cut down on electoral fraud Banned the use of vouching and use of voter information cards
Segregation
Segregation Segregation
Segregation
Separate But Equal A legal loophole that allowed for racial segregation even though the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed equal treatment Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Segregation laws created a segregated culture
Jim Crow “Terror as a means of social control” Segregation laws that disadvantaged black people became known as Jim Crow laws Many unwritten rules existed under Jim Crow
Lynching
Lynching Acts of “justice” carried out with the complicity of the local population that denies a person due process Lynching was used as a way to ensure White supremacy and to make sure the Black population remained submissive Between 1882 and 1927, 35,000 Blacks were lynched in the United States
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Blackface Minstrel Shows were a popular form of entertainment that played on stereotypes of Blacks as simple-minded
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow What lessons did Wright learn on how to live as a Negro under Jim Crow? Who taught him these lessons? How were these lessons taught?
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow What impressions did Pease and Morrie leave Wright with about his chances of “working his way up” under Jim Crow? Why do you think they reacted in this way? What do the encounters police in this story tell you about equal-treatment under the law under Jim Crow? What do you think that the fact all the Black servants at the hotel were all smiles told the White folk about the Jim Crow system? Why do you think some topics were off limits for discussion among White and Black groups?
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow What do you think was meant by the closing statement “Ef it wuzn't fer them polices 'n' them ol' lynch-mobs, there wouldn't be nothin' but uproar down here!”?