Background Information Flashcards
1
Q
What was the effect of the Jim Crow laws?
A
For example, in Louisiana, the number of registered black voters fell from 130,334 in 1896 to 1,342 in 1904
2
Q
What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v Ferguson regarding the 14th Amendment?
A
In 1896, they had declared that black people should be ‘separate but equal’, leading to greater justification for the implementation of Jim Crow laws
3
Q
Why had change not happened during the 1910’s and 1920’s?
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Wilson was in favour of segregation, having even segregated the White House.
Harding spoke out publicly against lynching, sometimes in front of crowds with 30,000 people. But, due to laissez-faire ideology, he and the Republican presidents didn’t interfere
