African Americans

after Reconstruction
 African Americans Lose Ground

• Africans were torn about the best approach to

race relations- integration or racial separation

• In the South, Redeemers passed Jim Crow

Laws to restrict black rights

• Jim Crow laws affected everything from public

transportation to college admissions and
military service.
13th Amendment -- Ends Slavery

14th Amendment - African Americans

become citizens & rights cannot be
taken away

15th Amendment -- African

Americans right to vote
13th Amendment - Ends Slavery
A. Sharecropping enslaves blacks to the land
• Debt Peonage(Debt Bondage) - by law person
in debt becomes forced labor

B. Convict-Lease System - provides cheap slave

labor for cotton planters, factories etc.
14th Amendment - African Americans
become citizens & no citizens' rights
could be taken away
A. Jim Crow Laws
segregated blacks from
whites in public places,
public vehicles, or
employment.
14th Amendment - African Americans
become citizens & no citizens' rights
could be taken away
A. Jim Crow Laws - segregated blacks
from whites in public places, public vehicles, or
employment.
B. Civil Rights Cases of 1883 -
Supreme Court declared the 14th AMD only
protected citizens from GOV. infringement of
civil rights - not private infringement

C. Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

• Racial segregation was constitutional -
Separate but equal.
15th Amendment - African Americans given right
to vote
A. Literacy test, poll taxes, property requirements,
grandfather clauses, & all white primaries
 The Populist Movement
Farm movement
• Members of Populist movement
supported voting rights for blacks
• Started in 1880s to support and
protect farmers
• In 1892 Populists officially banded
together as new political party
• To gain support for their programs
Populist leaders turned to black
voters
• Populists worked on behalf of black
citizens trying to win back lost
voting rights
Candidates
Blacks voted for Populist
candidates; angered
conservative white Democrats
• Fearing increased political
power of black voters,
conservative leaders tried to find
new ways to prevent African
Americans citizens from voting
• A few black politicians elected in
the South, with support from
Populists
• George Henry White from North
Carolina only black
representative in U.S. Congress
when elected
 Riots Erupts
Phoenix Wilmington New Orleans
• Blacks filled • Alex Manly, black • Robert Charles was
affidavit which led editor, printed stories harassed and beat by
to conflict with condemning white men police officers. Officer
white Democrats for sexual exploitation could not subdue him,
and shots fired of black women and so he pulled out his
• White men went black men having gun and Robert did
on rampage in sexual liaison with also. Both were
Greenwood, SC white women wounded.
killing black men • White angry mob • Charles fled to
burned printing press secluded area and
to ground and ran 20,000 whites
blacks out of town surrounded him.
• Took back their • He dies after he runs
government out of bullets.
• After, 4 days of rioting
and 12 more blacks
killed
Lynching – African Americans were punished by white mobs through
lynching, torture, burning, and murder
- 1882 – 1968, 3,745 Black lynchings occurred in the U.S.
 Activity

Complete the following:

1. In a gallery walk, identify the following as
either being black codes or Jim crow laws.

1. Then, go to the class Weebly and watch the

video on Ending Reconstruction, and complete
the guided questions and cartoon analysis.