Transcript Broken Promises of the New South PPT

Broken Promises of the
New South
Today’s Objectives
 After this lesson, we will be able to…
 Explain the major legislation that affected African-Americans
economically, politically, and socially
 Examine efforts to maintain African-American subservience
 Compare and contrast the viewpoints of two important black
philosophers
“Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday
 As you listen to the song, follow along with the lyrics and
pick out any passages that stand out to you
 What is Billie Holiday singing about?
 Strange Fruit
Slavery
The big paradox
How was slavery rationalized?
Civil War
“That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all
persons held as slaves within any state or
designated part of a State the people whereof
shall then be in rebellion against the United States
shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free
- Emancipation Proclamation
Broken Promises of the
New South
Day 2
Today’s Objectives
 After this lesson, we will be able to…
 Explain the major legislation that affected African-Americans
economically, politically, and socially
 Examine efforts to maintain African-American subservience
 Compare and contrast the viewpoints of two important black
philosophers
Reconstruction
Two main concerns:
1) Readmission of the states
Five military districts overseen by Union generals
2) What to do with the freed slaves (4 million)
Freedman’s Bureau
Rights Gained
13th Amendment (1865)
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted, shall exist within the United
States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
Abolish Slavery
Rights Gained
14th Amendment (1868)
All persons born or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdictions thereof, are citizens of
the United States…nor shall any state deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without due process
of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws.
Due process
Rights Gained
15th Amendment (1870)
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall
not be denied or abridged by the United States or by
any state on account of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude
Right to vote
Southern whites feared black
enfranchisement (right to vote)
WHY?
Discrimination and Institutionalized
Racism
 Maintained white economic, political, and social
advantages through Black Codes
 Economic: Sharecroppers, Tenant Farming, Crop Liens
 Social – Intimidation & Segregation (Black Codes), Ku
Klux Klan, Violent beatings, Lynching
 Political – (Voting restrictions) Poll taxes, Literacy tests,
Property requirements, Grandfather Clause
What was Billie Holiday singing about?
Lynching
A killing committed
outside the
boundaries of due
process by a mob;
usually as revenge
for an offence, real
or perceived
Coatesville Story
As an angry mob dragged
him from the hospital,
Zachariah Walker is said to
have cried, "For God's sake,
give a man a chance! I
killed Rice in self-defense.
Don't give me no crooked
death because I'm not
white!"
Compromise of 1877 or….
“The Great Betrayal of 1877”
Jim Crow Laws
 Legalized segregation (De jure segregation)
 Street cars, trains, churches, theaters, restaurants, schools,
cemeteries
 Slavery by another name
 Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
 Justified separate facilities for blacks and whites so long as they
were “equal”
Differing Responses
Booker T. Washington
What was his strategy?
W.E.B. Dubois
What was his strategy?