segregation & Prejudice

Black codes Effect on African Americans

Black Code Effects on African Americans

• Black Codes were strict laws that limited the rights of African Americans. Black Codes restricted access to voting, owning land, conducting business, buying or leasing land, and moving freely through public spaces. These codes were more common throughout the southern states, but northern states still had restrictions on African Americans.

Black Codes Effects on African Americans

• Without the right to own land, vote, and build a business, African Americans couldn't provide for their families. They would get lucky if somebody hired them, Most people would work in unskilled labor tasks such as loading freight, these jobs paid very little. Some African Americans chose to work in fields because they didn't get a chance at a real job.

How the Great depression affected African Americans

Great Depression affects

• While no racial groups escaped the Great Depression African Americans received it the worst. They were the first to see their hours cut or even worse get fired. Statistically African Americans have the highest unemployment rate of all races. They weren't able to find any jobs to hire them. This explains the phrase "First fired, last hired".

Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow Laws on African Americans

• Jim Crow Laws were a set of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. These laws restricted African American education, voting, and jobs. They also separated whites from colors, most things including bathrooms, schools, and businesses were separated. This caused a movement called the "civil rights movement"

Jim Crow Laws on African Americans

• These laws were strict and if somebody didn't follow these laws they received harsh punishments. These included fines, jail time, or even death. These laws cause African Americans to have little to no power in the social system.

Scottsboro Boys

Scottsboro Boys

• The Scottsboro boy's trial was very important in the history of segregation. This trial was 9 African Americans who were accused of assaulting a white woman. The all-white judge and all-white jury quickly convicted them of being guilty without thoroughly inspecting the case. Eight of them got the death penalty and the other one was saved because he wasn't considered an adult.

Scottsboro Boy's

• This trial reflects the time period of this incident because of the judges and jury's quick and biased decisions. They took the lives of eight African Americans without considering if they were innocent. This represents the racial struggles between whites and colored.

Northern and southern differences

Southern

• The southern states have stricter laws and regulations on African Americans. Rural areas were known for having stricter and harsher rules against the colored. Jim Crow Laws ruined their chance of having a fair life with the whites. African Americans migrated to the cities because their rules weren't as strict as in rural areas.

Southern

• Once the government realized the migration patterns they created stricter rules. Now their only hope was to move up to the northern states.
• The article states, “big cities in the south were not wholly beholden to jim crow laws and Black Americans found more freedom in them.”

Northern

• Although the northern states weren't prone to Jim Crow laws they still had some regulations. The northern cities didn't have as strict rules as the southern cities but they did have restraints against African Americans. They could vote but they had to own land, low-paying jobs made this hard to maintain this land. racial segregation was still common.

Northern

• schools and neighborhoods were separated from whites and colored. The experiences in southern rural/cities are widely different from what you would witness in northern cities.