Wednesday, January 30, 2013

African-Americas after Reconstruction

  • New voting restrictions
  • Denied legal equality to African Americans
  • limited votes for people who could read, and required registration of a literacy test
  • Blacks were asked more difficult questions than whites
  • poll tax was another requirement
  • they also added the grandfather clause
 Essential Questions:
a. How is racism today different than racism practiced immediately after reconstruction?
  - It is different because before they would tell the people to their face whatever they had in mind and nowadays most people keep everything a secret and dont really say what is on their mind if that person is a racist.
b. an example of today is also the voting rights people had to fight for to get to where we are today.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arras004/socialetymologies/Slave%20Labor%20Camp.jpg
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http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/Freedmen_Voting__South_Carolina__1868.jpg
 http://goo.gl/VSWN5

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