The Grandfather Clause

Racist non voting conditions

The Grandfather Clause was sanctioned by seven southern states during and after the reconstruction era to haul freedmen from voting. The clauses purpose was to refute the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which did not allow black men to vote; knowingly it negated African American political contribution into the 20th Century. Louisiana in 1898 had laws that swam their way into regulations and constituents by 1910, the Grandfather Clause specified that all men or lineage of men who were voters before 1867 did not have to come across the educational, property, or taxes for voting then in existence. This successfully permitted all white males to vote although repudiating the license to black men and other men of color.  The Grandfather Clause, with its voting rejections, was the centerfold of a much bigger scheme of discrimination and racial segregation. While in concept standards were set state-wide to record procedures, but in actuality the different county Registrars and assistants operated in their own manner. The careful process mixed from county to county, and within a county it speckled from day to day rendering to the disposition of the Registrar. And, of course, it almost continuously diverted according to the race of the candidate. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909 assembled the first lawful test to the Grandfather Clause. Guinn v. United States, a case which prolong to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1915.  The Court reigned that Grandfather Clauses in Maryland and Oklahoma were worthless and annulled because they dishonoured the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Jim Crow and his southern law

Ways of the Old South
Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-black racism. Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that whites were the Chosen people, blacks were cursed to be servants, and God supported racial segregation. Craniologists, eugenicists, phrenologists, and Social Darwinists, at every educational level, buttressed the belief that blacks were innately intellectually and culturally inferior to whites. Pro-segregation politicians gave eloquent speeches on the great danger of integration: the mongrelization of the white race. Newspaper and magazine writers routinely referred to blacks as niggers, coons, and darkies; and worse, their articles reinforced anti-black stereotypes. The Jim Crow system was undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations: whites were superior to blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior; sexual relations between blacks and whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America; treating blacks as equals would encourage interracial sexual unions; any activity which suggested social equality encouraged interracial sexual relations; if necessary, violence must be used to keep blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy. The following Jim Crow etiquette norms show how inclusive and pervasive these norms were:

The Invisible Empire

KKK

The Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six veterans of the Confederate Army. The term proposes a band of brothers. Although there wasn’t any organizational construction above the resident level, parallel sets arose across the South, embracing the name and procedures.  Klan groups spread throughout the South as a rebellious movement during the Reconstruction era in the United States. As a secret group, the Klan embattled freedmen and their helpers; it sought to reinstate white supremacy by intimidations and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans. In 1870 and 1871, the federal government approved the Force Acts, which were used to arraign Klan crimes. Prosecution of Klan crimes and enforcement of the Force Acts repressed Klan activity. In 1874, newly organized and openly active organizations, like the White League and the Red Shirts, underwent a replacement round of viciousness intended on suppressing black votes and pushing Republicans out of office. These groups contributed to segregationist white Democrats recovering political influence in all the Southern states by 1877.

The Black Holocaust in America

The Black Holocaust in America

The black holocaust in America is the name of given to the people of Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1921 where black were building their own economic communities a decade before the national depression in America. During the oil boom of the 1910s, the area of northeast Oklahoma around Tulsa flourished, including the Greenwood neighborhood, which was known as "the Negro Wall. The area was home to several projecting black businessmen, many of them multimillionaires. Greenwood swanked a variety of prosperous businesses that were very efficacious up until the Tulsa Race Riot. Not only did African Americans want to fund to the achievement of their own shops, but also the racial segregation laws disallowed them from shopping anywhere other than Greenwood. One of the nation's vilest acts of racial violence, the Tulsa Race Riot, happened there in late May and early June of 1921, when 35 square blocks of homes and businesses were incinerated by mobs of angry whites. The riot began because of the unproven assault of a white elevator operator, 17-year old Sarah Page, by an African American shoe shiner, 19-year old Dick Rowland. When Rowland was acquitted of his charges the Tulsa Tribune got conformation of the incident and chose to circulate the story in the paper on May 31, 1921. Soon after the newspaper article appeared, there were updates that a white lynch mob was going to take problems into its specific hands and kill Dick Rowland.

Abraham..The Tallest President

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The tallest president to step foot in the white house was President Abraham Lincoln. Often is presented as the man who freed the slaves with the emanicipation proclamiation. All true historians know that though it did lead up to slaves becoming free its purpose was not directly to free the slaves. The proclamation was a well divised military strategy to get repressed or orpressed blacks to join the union army against the confederate states to deplete the south from its reign of operating as its own entity. Also is the president that stands in the middle of the debate of was the civil war a battle of controlled econmy seeing as how slavery was seen as immoral to the outside countries that was watching the United States participating in act that was going against it on declaration and constitutional values. Having owned slaves himself this man can be argued to be the most important president of the 19th century. He also noted for having one of the most american speeches of motivation to the people during the trail of the Gettysburg address. John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 in later part of his presidential career at a movie theatre.