Module 9 Lectures - Lecture notes 9 PDF

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• Jim Crow ◦ A series of racist laws and customs which created and enforced racial segregation in the US from the late 19th century through the mid 20th century ◦ Political, economic, and social structure founded on white supremacy! ◦ Acts that suggested that white and blacks were equal were prohibited ◦ Violence could be used to enforce that racial hierarchy ◦ Thomas Darthmouth • Plessy v Ferguson ◦ 1896 ◦ Homer Plessy • Had 1 black great- grandfather • Not allowed to ride in the white part of the trains ◦ Supreme Court ruled that the states didn't violate anyone's rights by having segregation, as long as no one was harmed • "separate but equal" • Enforcing segregation exacerbated racial ideas ◦ Segregated public transportation, water fountains, hospitals • Etiquette rules for black people

◦ Not allowed to show affection in public, eat with white people, assume that a white person was lying ◦ If they did so, they could be punished by violence • Rosewood, FL ◦ White mob burned it to the ground as an example of social control • Lynching ◦ Public, sadistic, carried out by mobs ◦ 1882-1968: 4730 documented lynchings • 3440 were black men and women! • Most were hanged or shot, some were burned • Used to intimidate black men and women...