Jim Crow, Populism, and Citizenship PDF
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This document examines the topics of Jim Crow, Populism, and Citizenship, focusing on the rise of sharecropping, prison labor systems in the South, and organized voter suppression. It also includes Plessy v. Ferguson, which highlights racial inequalities of the time.
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JIM CROW, POPULISM AND CITIZENSHIP September 11 THE RISE OF SHARECROPPING Loading… PRISON LABOR SYSTEMS IN THE SOUT ORGANIZED VOTER SUPPRESSION Loading… PLESSY V. FERGUSON (1896) “If he [Homer Plessy] be a white man and assigned to a colored coach,...
JIM CROW, POPULISM AND CITIZENSHIP September 11 THE RISE OF SHARECROPPING Loading… PRISON LABOR SYSTEMS IN THE SOUT ORGANIZED VOTER SUPPRESSION Loading… PLESSY V. FERGUSON (1896) “If he [Homer Plessy] be a white man and assigned to a colored coach, he may have his action for damages against the company for being deprived of his so-called property. Upon the other hand, if he be a colored man and be so assigned, he has be deprived of no property, since he is not lawfully entitled to the reputation of being a white man.” “Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation....If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.” JIM CROW, POPULISM, AND CITIZENSHIP September 11 THE RISE OF SHARECROPPING Loading… PRISON LABOR SYSTEMS IN THE SOUTH ORGANIZED VOTER SUPPRESSION Loading… PLESSY V. FERGUSON (1896) “If he [Homer Plessy] be a white man and assigned to a colored coach, he may have his action for damages against the company for being deprived of his so-called property. Upon the other hand, if he be a colored man and be so assigned, he has be deprived of no property, since he is not lawfully entitled to the reputation of being a white man.” “Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation....If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.”