The Legacy of the Redeemers: A Post-Reconstruction South

The Character of Jim Crow

Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws General term for a variety of state and local laws Mandated separation of the races (segregation) Applied to virtually all public facilities and services Also often applied to residential areas, loan policies of banks, and many private businesses “Separate but Equal”

Loss of Voting Rights Poll Taxes - Many African Americans could not afford the amounts - Who else might lose out because of this? - Are there modern poll taxes? Proof of identity documentation was hard to get

Instructions Everyone should have two copies of part A and one part B/C Find a partner that has a different version than yourself The student with version 1(1) will hand one copy of Part A to their partner (2) Person 2 will read Part A version 1 and person 1 will cross out any words that 2 mispronounces Person 2 will then provide a clear explanation/interpretation of what the passage means 1 and 2 will then switch roles as person 1 reads and interprets Part A version 2 When both people have finished Part A, they will then exchange their Parts B/C

Passage 1 SECTION 20: That no person shall be imprisoned for debt.

Passage 2 SECTION 260: The income arising from the sixteenth section trust fund, the surplus revenue fund, until it is called for by the United States government, and the funds enumerated in sections 257 and 258 of this Constitution, together with a special annual tax of thirty cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property in this state, which the legislature shall levy, shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the public schools, and it shall be the duty of the legislature to increase the public school fund from time to time as the necessity therefore and the condition of the treasury and the resources of the state may justify; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the legislature to levy in any one year a greater rate of state taxation for all purposes, including schools, than sixty-five cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property; and provided further, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the legislature from first providing for the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the state and interest thereon out of all the revenue of the state.

Loss of Voting Rights Poll Taxes - Many African Americans could not afford the amounts - Who else might lose out because of this? - Are there modern poll taxes? Proof of identity documentation was hard to get Literacy Tests - Tested knowledge of state and U.S. government - Grandfather Clause Effective?- By 1910 only .5% of African American men in Louisiana were registered to vote