The Southern States worked hard after the Civil War to reject the Reconstruction Acts passed by Congress and added to the Constitution. It took over 40 years but they succeed by the early 1900's to enact laws and use other tools to put Black Men "back in their place".
Read the two articles below that describe in more detail, how that was done. The third article describes how it is being done again today, to "take our country back".
Slavery Exam #4 - Jim Crow
Start Tuesday November 19, 2013 ends Sunday November 24, 2013 midnight
This Exam will be based on the three articles below
1870-1910
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_Reconstruction_era
End of an era
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7YTbHUTVM2KR0NYaFlrUnJ1azQ/edit?usp=sharing
2012-now
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/10/three_ways_the_gop_has_disenfranchised_voters/
Great topic to discuss today. This is part of African American history which everyone should know about. All respect and honor goes out to my ancestors for paving the way for me and everyone else. I will never forget this and will pass this on to the next generation.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this post!!! I agree with Isaiah more African Americans especially the males should be better educated on our history and everything the was sacrificed for us to be in the position we are in today. If we don't continue to learn and pass our history down to our children and others around us, the fight an struggle our ancestors went through would be almost for nothing because we would eventually move so far away from what they worked hard to accomplish that it would be almost a slap in the face to them...
ReplyDeleteI agree with Isaiah and Elijah as well, this topic I believe really helped put things in perspective in regards to being a black man in society and the modern day mistreatment of African Americans.
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