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The Jim Crow Era covers race relations in the entire United States (but primarily the South) during the time period roughly from the end of the American Civil War and destruction of slavery (1865) to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Immediately after the Civil War during the brief Reconstruction Era (1863-1877), millions of African Americans in the South, assisted and protected by the Federal government and military, received legal entitlement to political, economic, and educational opportunities for the first time. After 1877 whites regained control over Southern governments. From 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country was worse than in any other period after the American Civil War African Americans lost many of the civil rights gains made during Reconstruction. Anti-black violence, lynchings, segregation, legal racial discrimination, and expressions of white supremacy increased.

From 1890–1908 states of the former Confederacy passed statutes and amendments to their state constitutions that effectively disfranchised most blacks in the South through devices such as poll taxes, and literacy tests. Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. During the first six decades of the 20th century, denying civil rights for blacks was a prime objective of Southern politics.

Overview

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_related_to_the_African_diaspora#Political_and_social_movements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_of_American_race_relations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States#In_the_North

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1865%E2%80%931918)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African_Americans%27_rights_organizations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States#African_Americans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Southern_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Jim_Crow_Era

Politics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Party_USA_and_African_Americans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disenfranchisement_after_the_Reconstruction_Era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garveyism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_nationalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redeemers

Legal restrictions

Jim Crow Laws

Main article: Jim Crow laws

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in 1890 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. Conditions for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to those available to white Americans. This body of law institutionalized a number of economic, educational, and social disadvantages. De jure segregation mainly applied to the Southern states, while Northern segregation was generally de facto — patterns of housing segregation enforced by private covenants, bank lending practices, and job discrimination, including discriminatory labor union practices.

Jim Crow laws mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated, as were federal workplaces, initiated in 1913 under President Woodrow Wilson. By requiring candidates to submit photos, his administration practiced racial discrimination in hiring.

These Jim Crow laws followed the 1800–1866 Black Codes, which had previously restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans. Segregation of public (state-sponsored) schools was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but years of action and court challenges were needed to unravel numerous means of institutional discrimination.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_resistance

Migration

Great Migration

Main articles: Great Migration (African American) and Second Great Migration (African American)

Segregation, increase in racism, the widespread violence of lynching (nearly 3,500 African-Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1968), and lack of social and economic opportunities in the South encouraged millions of African Americans to leave their region. There were also factors that pulled migrants to the north, such as labor shortages in northern factories due to World War I that resulted in thousands of jobs available to African Americans in steel mills, railroads, meatpacking plants, and the automobile industry. The pull of jobs in the North was strengthened by the efforts of labor agents sent by northern businessmen to recruit southern workers. Northern companies offered special incentives to encourage black workers to relocate, included free transportation and low-cost housing.

The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. Blacks moved from 14 states of the South, especially Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, to the other three cultural (and census-designated) regions of the United States. Georgia was especially affected, seeing net declines in its black population for three consecutive decades after 1920.

Some historians differentiate between a first Great Migration (1910–1930), which saw about 1.6 million people move from mostly rural areas to northern industrial cities, and a Second Great Migration (1940–1970), which began after the Great Depression and brought at least 5 million people — including many townspeople with urban skills — to the north and to California and other western states.

By the end of the Second Great Migration, blacks had become an urbanized population. More than 80 percent of blacks lived in cities. A bare majority of 53 percent remained in the South, while 40 percent lived in the North, and 7 percent in the West.

Since 1965, a reverse migration has gathered strength. Dubbed the New Great Migration, it has seen many blacks move to the South, generally to states and cities where economic opportunities are the best. The reasons include economic difficulties of cities in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, growth of jobs in the "New South" and its lower costs of living, family and kinship ties, and improving racial relations. As early as 1975 to 1980, seven southern states were net black migration gainers. Black populations have continued to drop throughout much of the Northeast, particularly with black emigration out of the state of New York, as well as out of Northern New Jersey, as they rise in the South.

Civil Rights efforts

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism.

The American Civil Rights Movement has been made up of many movements. The term usually refers to the political struggles and reform movements between 1954 and 1968 to end discrimination against African Americans and other disadvantaged groups and to end legal racial segregation, especially in the US South.

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–95)

Main article: African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–95)

During this time period there were various reform movements aimed at eliminating racial discrimination against African Americans, improving educational and employment opportunities, and establishing electoral power.

The year 1865 held two important events in the history of African Americans: the Thirteenth Amendment, which eliminated slavery, was ratified; and Union troops arrived in June in Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, giving birth to the modern Juneteenth celebrations. Freedmen looked to start new lives as the country recovered from the devastation of the Civil War.

Immediately following the Civil War, the federal government began a program known as Reconstruction aimed at rebuilding the states of the former Confederacy. The federal programs also provided aid to the former slaves and attempted to integrate them into society. During and after this period, blacks made substantial gains in their political power and many were able to move from abject poverty to land ownership. At the same time resentment by many whites toward these gains led to unprecedented violence led by the local chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

The year 1896 held the landmark Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld "separate but equal" racial segregation. It was a devastating setback for civil rights, as the legal, social, and political status of the black population reached a nadir.

Much of the early reform movement during this era was spearheaded by the Radical Republicans, a faction of the Republican Party. By the end of the 19th century, the so-called lily-white movement had managed to substantially weaken the power of blacks in the party. The most important civil rights leaders of this period were Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Booker T. Washington (1856-1915).

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–95)

Two United States Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), which upheld "separate but equal" racial segregation as constitutional doctrine, and Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) which overturned Plessy—serve as milestones. This was an era of stops and starts, in which some movements, such as Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, were very successful but left little lasting legacy, while others, such as the NAACP's painstaking legal assault on state-sponsored segregation, achieved modest results in its early years but made steady progress on voter rights and gradually built to a key victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

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Education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_school

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities

Lifestyle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_neighborhood

Religion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Black_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_church

Violence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legion_(political_movement)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_League

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Shirts_(Southern_United_States)