Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Life in Texas for African Americans after the civil war

Jim Crow Laws

• by the 1870s, numerous southern states had passed what were later known as "Jim Crow" laws

• some of these laws lasted in parts of the south for 100 years until 1968

• Black codes were the start and later transformed into the "Jim Crow" laws

Ku Klux Klan

• Persecuted against minorities, especially freed blacks

• Black schools were vandalized

• violent mobs of white people kidnapped, tortured, lynchedblacks

• began with former Confederates gathering together

Jim Crow Laws Grow

• More and more blacks are moving into cities

• White people wanted more regulations to limit black power and influence

• Waiting rooms at bus and train stations are separated

• Water fountains are separated

• Restrooms are separated

• Entrances to public buildings are separated

Jim Crow Laws Grow

• Blacks were forbidden from some city parks

• Theaters had special rooms for blacks

• Some restaurants had 'no blacks allowed' and other restaurants had special black sections

• Cemeteries were segregated

• Amusement park entrances were segregated

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Multiple Choice

What did the black codes later become?

• Ku Klux Klan

• Jim Crow Laws

• Confederacy

Multiple Choice

The Ku Klux Klan is:

• A group of hateful people

• White people that hates minorities

• Responsible for some of the horrible treatments of black people

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

As the Jim Crow Laws grew:

• More things were limited for blacks

• Less things were limited for blacks.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a place that was segregated for blacks?

• Restaurants

• Water Fountains

• Bathrooms

• All of the above