White Supremacy

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White Supremacy

• I. IntroductionRace and Nation
• A. The National Obsession
• B. Scientific Racism
• II. Reversing Reconstruction
• A. Economics of the New South
• B. Criminal Justice
• C. Violence
• D. Segregation
• E. Disfranchisement
• III. Resistance
• A. Physical
• B. Political
• C. Economic
• D. Legal
• IV. Jim Crow

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National Obsession
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Race

• Historically constructed
• Categories change over time
• Late 19th c. sees the rise of Scientific Racism
• Social Darwinism
• Believed that segregation and race were natural

Types of Mankind (1845)
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Criminal Justice
Chain gang Georgia 1880s
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Violence

• Year W B Tot
• 1882 64 49 113
• 1885 110 74 184
• 1890 11 85 96
• 1895 66 113 179
• 1900 9 106 115
• 1905 5 57 62
• 1910 9 67 76

Will Froggy James
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Discrimination
Moses Fleetwood Walker Toledo catcher

• Majority bias overwhelms demands for equal
  treatment.

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Separate but Equal

• Tennessee Railroad Law (1881)

Railway smoking car, 1870s
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Disfranchisement

• Poll Taxes
• Literacy Tests
• Residency Requirements
• White Primaries
• Political Violence

Populist demagogue Tom Watson
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Resistance
Racial clash, New Orleans, 1866
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Economic

• Colored National Farmers Alliance
• Boycotts
• Strikes

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Political

• Populists defeated
• Blacks disfranchised
• Growing caution
• Atlanta Compromise, 1895

Booker T. Washington
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Rights Retained

• Strauder (1880)
• Right to sit on juries
• Yick Wo (1886)
• Regulations must be color-blind

Interracial jury box, 1867
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Social Equality

• Equal access
• Common law
• Reconstruction-era accommodation statutes
• Civil Rights Act of 1875

Ida B. Wells
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Jim Crow
Rodolphe Desdunes
Louisiana Supreme Court

• Civil Rights Cases (1883)
• Supreme Court voids Civil Rights Act of 1875
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)