Post on 23-Feb-2017
After slavery was abolished 1865 black people still experienced discrimination and racism in south of the USA
This discrimination was often legal
The Jim Crow laws were gotten rid of after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s
Literacy tests meant many Black people were denied the vote.
White people not affected by this
Meant that Black people not represented in political system
White pupils and Black pupils attended different schools
Black schools worse
Summer High School for white Children in Kansas
Black people not allowed to travel in same carriages as white people
also had separate waiting rooms
Blacks had to give their seats to white people on the bus
Black people also segregated when eating out
White Coloured
Pool Hall in Memphis
Write down bullet points under the following headings
School Travel Leisure Housing VotingExtension
What effects will the lack of a proper education and not being able to vote have on Black people? Think about housing, standard of living etc
Jim Crow Laws allowed all of this
Why did Black people not fight back?
Homework – research the Ku Klux Klan. What was the organisation and what did they do?