1. Jim Crow
• popular 1828 song by
white performer in
blackface minstrel
show
• mocked African
Americans
Come, listen all you gals and boys, Ise just
from Tuckyhoe
I'm goin' to sing a little song, My name's Jim
Crow.
Weel about and turn about and do jis so,
Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow.
2. Reconstruction Amendments
• 13th = abolition of slavery
• 14th = naturalized citizenship,
due process, equal protection
• 15th = universal male suffrage
4. Post-Civil War
Democratic Party in the South:
• Redeemers
• created “Lost Cause”
myth
• white supremacy
• regained control in South
in Compromise of 1877
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8. The Lost Cause Myth
• false historical narrative that
saw Confederate cause a
heroic struggle to preserve
the Southern way of life from
Northern aggression
• considered slavery just and
moral; stated enslaved
persons were happy and
well-cared for
• contributed to KKK terror and systemic racism
9. The Lost Cause Myth
• celebrated through Confederate monuments and symbols
state flag of Mississippi (1894-2020)
“Silent Sam” Confederate Memorial
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(1913-2018)
11. Jim Crow
• 1877-1964: institutionalized racial caste
system in the South
• excluded African Americans from public
transport and facilities, juries, jobs, and
neighborhoods
• legitimized by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
12. 13th: 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.
16. 14th: All persons born or naturalized in the
United States and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the United States and
of the State wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of 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.
17. African Americans = second class citizens
Christian ministers, doctors, and Social Darwinists
taught:
• whites were superior to blacks in intelligence,
morality, and civilized behavior
• interracial sex would produce an inferior
mongrel race which would destroy America
• if necessary, violence must be used to keep
blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy
18. Jim Crow etiquette:
• A black male could not offer to shake hands with a white male
because it implied social equality.
• Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together. If they did,
whites were to be served first.
• Under no circumstance was a black male to light the cigarette of
a white female, a gesture implying intimacy.
• Whites were addressed as Mr., Mrs., Miss., Sir, or Ma'am; blacks
were called by their first names.
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20. 15th: 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.
