Students will recognize how the Jim Crow Laws began to affect the everyday lives of African Americans and how they sparked racial violence throughout the United States.
Introduction
In the last lesson, you learned of the origins of the Jim Crow Laws. In this Read It, you are going to learn just how far some people were willing to go in order to carry out their beliefs on the Jim Crow Laws. As Reconstruction began to end, many states were left with the ability to begin rewriting their own constitutions. Many southern states wanted to include Jim Crow principles into their state constitutions. Within this Read It, you are going to learn about one federal court ruling on segregation, as well as the racial violence that was initiated, through …show more content…
Though the cases did not deal directly with segregation, later they will be used to justify the Jim Crow Laws. The cases were brought to the Supreme Court in 1873 and dealt with the meatpacking industry in New Orleans. For health and sanitation reasons, New Orleans had created one organization to run all of the slaughterhouses in New Orleans. Using the 14th Amendment, the owners of three separate slaughterhouses said that by combining the meatpacking industry, their rights and privileges as citizens were being impeded.
The Supreme Court did not side with the owners of the slaughterhouses. Based on the Constitution, the 14th Amendment and the Supreme Court, the amendments deal directly with the rights of national citizenship and the rights granted to Americans by the Constitution. Certain rights are granted to the states to decide on. Therefore, the business ownership and rights of those owners was a state issue and not one of the federal …show more content…
This form of racial violence was known as lynching. Lynching was the murder of individuals, usually by hanging, by large mobs. Historically, the act of a lynching was not always done to African Americans and former slaves. Up until the mid-1800s,a lynching was used on white men who had committed crimes such as theft. However, after Reconstruction, lynching became more commonly done to African Americans. These people were never given fair trials and it is estimated that one African American was lynched every other day.
In total, some 900 African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1892. Often times, people that were lynched were innocent of the crime they were lynched for. Some people would survive the brutality of the lynching, only to die from injuries sustained during their attacks at a later date. African American journalists began reporting on racial violence, such as lynching and other crimes that were taking place. While this was dangerous to do, many felt that it was important to expose the scale of violence that was taking place, try to stop lynching, and defend the memories of African American
Introduction
In the last lesson, you learned of the origins of the Jim Crow Laws. In this Read It, you are going to learn just how far some people were willing to go in order to carry out their beliefs on the Jim Crow Laws. As Reconstruction began to end, many states were left with the ability to begin rewriting their own constitutions. Many southern states wanted to include Jim Crow principles into their state constitutions. Within this Read It, you are going to learn about one federal court ruling on segregation, as well as the racial violence that was initiated, through …show more content…
Though the cases did not deal directly with segregation, later they will be used to justify the Jim Crow Laws. The cases were brought to the Supreme Court in 1873 and dealt with the meatpacking industry in New Orleans. For health and sanitation reasons, New Orleans had created one organization to run all of the slaughterhouses in New Orleans. Using the 14th Amendment, the owners of three separate slaughterhouses said that by combining the meatpacking industry, their rights and privileges as citizens were being impeded.
The Supreme Court did not side with the owners of the slaughterhouses. Based on the Constitution, the 14th Amendment and the Supreme Court, the amendments deal directly with the rights of national citizenship and the rights granted to Americans by the Constitution. Certain rights are granted to the states to decide on. Therefore, the business ownership and rights of those owners was a state issue and not one of the federal …show more content…
This form of racial violence was known as lynching. Lynching was the murder of individuals, usually by hanging, by large mobs. Historically, the act of a lynching was not always done to African Americans and former slaves. Up until the mid-1800s,a lynching was used on white men who had committed crimes such as theft. However, after Reconstruction, lynching became more commonly done to African Americans. These people were never given fair trials and it is estimated that one African American was lynched every other day.
In total, some 900 African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1892. Often times, people that were lynched were innocent of the crime they were lynched for. Some people would survive the brutality of the lynching, only to die from injuries sustained during their attacks at a later date. African American journalists began reporting on racial violence, such as lynching and other crimes that were taking place. While this was dangerous to do, many felt that it was important to expose the scale of violence that was taking place, try to stop lynching, and defend the memories of African American