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What opportunities were held for post slavery?

Share croppers

Jim Crow laws

Issues with the KKK

African Americans Freedom

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Sharecropper is a new thing that happened post civil war and was an opportunity for slaves to have a source of money and a job. The government promised 40 acres and a mule to the families of sharecropping.

Sharecropping wasn’t temporary and lasted many decades

Sharecropping, which was meant for post slaves, had 2/3s of the people being white while the other 1/3 African Americans

Sharecroppers had to share the land from white land owners who they had to share the profits with (Heslip and Tanner).

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Sharecropping was unfair towards many African Americans due to white landowners hoarding the profits of black workers. African Americans who challenged the system of domination faced threats, violence, and even murder. A lot of the African Americans didn’t have a lot of other places of work due to segregation (Heslip and Tanner).

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The Jim Crow Laws was basically segregation which consisted of

Being mostly in the southern states

It lasted from 1877-1950s

Jim Crow was a derogatory term for African Americans

White and black people we’re separated in schools and public transportation

White and black people were even separated in restaurants, parks, and theaters

Once there Jim Crow Laws were removed it caused an outbreak of racism across the south

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American legal discrimination in Jim Crow explained

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Did You Know? Jim Crow Law
The laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States are called Jim Crow laws.
Jim Crow lasted from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
The name came from a minstrel routine named Jump Jim Crow where white actors performed in blackface. The show was so popular that "Jim Crow" became a derogatory term for Black people-and came to describe segregated life.
Jim Crow laws included the separation of white and Black people in schools and on public transportation, as well as in movie theaters, parks, and restaurants, in an effort to prevent any contact between Blacks and whites as equals.
In 1954 the Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education declared that segregation in public schools (and, by implication, other public facilities, like transit) was unconstitutional.
Jim Crow laws began to be struck down across the South.
Though the defeat of Jim Crow didn't end racism in the United States, it was a crucial step toward correcting decades of institutionalized discrimination against African Americans.

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American legal discrimination in Jim Crow explained

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Article media libraries that feature this video: Jim Crow law Did You Know? Jim Crow Law The laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States are called Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow lasted from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.

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The KKK was a group of people all across the south they were made up of people in the communities

The KKK were a hate group against African Americans and would harass, threaten, murder people of color

In 1870 many Republican state governments in the south wanted to stop the KKK

To help stop the KKK the United States government had to step in and create 3 enforcement acts

One act that was the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871

The effort put to stop the KKK wasn’t effective enough and the KKK lasted but were less violent

In 2016 people are still saying the KKK members are still around (“Ku Klux Klan: Orgin, Members & Facts”)

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African Americans were not as free as a white man. They were looked down on during the antebellum south and people were finding ways to discriminate against them.

Ways of this were:

Literacy tests were put in place to be able to vote. Due to this former slaves who couldn’t read and write couldn’t vote

The Jim Crow Laws

Sharecropping

KKK