African-Americans After Reconstruction

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Compared to how racism was in the past it is definetly different to how it is today. There still is racism but it is not as in your face as it was in the past. Now schools are not segregated, schools have more racial diversity.We are all allowed to drink out of the same water fountain(; There is racial immigration laws though not as bad as back then. Some people are still prejudice against African Americans but it is not as serious. Back then they believed that they were treating them equally as long as they provided the same service, but the white peoples restaurants, schools, even water fountains were of better quality than the ones for colored people.

http://goo.gl/k3vpj  look at him checking out the other fountain (; 

Essential Question: 

List ALL the methods Southern states tried to limit the power of African-Americans.

• Southern states established laws that restricted African-American's Civil Rights 
• In order to reduce the number of African Americans voting they required them to take a literacy test. For colored people they would ask them tougher questions or give them the test in a foreign language.
• In order to limit the African-American votes , southern states created a poll tax( a payment you do annually in order to vote) . This decreased the amount of black voters.
• the Jim Crow Laws were established, which were basically laws that segregated the blacks and the whites in public or private facilities.
• the south also added what was called the Grandfather Clause which stated that even if you did not pass the literacy test or was not able to pay the poll tax, you could still have a chance to vote as long as either your father or grandfather was able to vote  before January 1,1867. this was unfair because no blacks were able to vote back then. so it was not beneficial to the African-Americans.