Post-Reconstruction Discrimation

African-Americans had to pay a poll tax, or own property before being able to vote.
They also had to take literacy tests, and show that they are able to read and write.
To make sure poor whites could still vote, they state and towns passed special laws with grandfather clauses.

Many states instituted a system of legal segregation. African-Americans were treated as second-class citizens.
In the South, segregation was required by statutes called Jim Crow laws. It was named after a white actor in blackface and baggy clothes to made fun of African-Americans.
By the 1900's, about every aspect if life in the South was segregated, even water fountains.

SEGREGATION

Voting rescrictions

VIOLENCE

Race relations in the north

White men talked down on African-American men, by calling them "boy" or their first name.
If you stepped out of line of racial etiquette, they could lose their jobs, or violence could occur.
White men lynched blacks for any reason, and this was one of the most successful fear tactics to scare blacks.

African-Americans moved to the North to escape the violence and legal segregation.
Since white men feared the blacks would take their jobs, race riots started to form.
A black man, convicted of rape was transferred to another prison after a race riot in Springfield, Illinois wanted him to be released to them.
They were outraged that he was moved, and a mob of several thousland white men attacked, stole, and burned black business and homes. Two elderly African-Americans were killed.