Question

In 2 paragraphs. Explain how and why white southerners took away African Americans right to vote and adopt Jim Crow segregation laws at the end of the 19th century.

Answer 1

During the 1880s, Southern big cities were not wholly beholden to Jim Crow segregation laws however the African Americans felt more freedom in them. This caused the substantial black populations moving to the cities in the South and, as the years progressed, the more laws were demanded by the white city dwellers to put a break on the opportunities for African Americans. Soon the Jim Crow laws spread around the nation with even more force than earlier. The African Americans were forbidden to enter the parks, and also the restaurants and theatres were segregated. In the period from 1887 to 1892 nine states, inclusive of Louisiana, passed laws that directed public conveyances separation, such as railroads and streetcars.

In the late 19th and early 20th the southern states disfranchised the most of voters as African American and instituted a series of policies termed to be Jim Crow laws that segregates the whites and blacks in public facilities. In Mississippi Plan, state governments approved many comprehensive measures that included literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and requirements on residency, making voting almost impossible for majority of the African Americans, and few poor whites. However it was followed with the segregation as legalized ruled constitutional by the decision of the Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson - 1896. The population of African Americans that resisted were suffered violence by the white people, the worst form being suffered was lynching