HIS 317L Jim Crow Laws Midterm Review

1. Get away from the plantations

2. Rebuilt their families

3. Changed their names

4. Purchased Property

5. Created Black Churches

6. Created Black Schools

7. Established Businesses

Abolished Slavery

Gave black people citizenship

Gave black men the right to vote

1. Physical separation of races

2. Eliminated blacks w/ violence

3. Made it hard for blacks to live

4. Took away the right to vote

5. Manipulated criminal justice system

1. Arrest a black person

2. Take accused away

3. Take them to trial

4. Quick trial

5. Conviction

6. Sentencing

7. Lynching

1. Limit black political ambitions

2. Keep Large source of cheap labor

3. Discourage black independence

So white people could maintain control politically and economically

1. Black schools closed

2. Black faculty lost their jobs

3. Blacks have no desire to be teachers

4. Black children will be taught by people who don’t know them

1. Modern school architecture

2. Bus transportation

3. Raise for black bus drivers

4. School term increased to 9 months

5. Better teachers for black schools

6. Do away with all school inequalities based on race

Black people have always been used as lab rats. No trust towards healthcare system

1. Give black physicians a voice

2. Form a network for research purposes

3. create a network for black physicians

4. Create healthy living conditions for black people

5. Publish medical journals to have accessible healthcare

6. Create local medical societies to meet and discuss black healthcare

1. Led fundraising campaigns for black hospitals

2. Donated themselves

3. Ran nurse and hospital training programs

Place for black veterans to get help, employ black nurses and doctors, modern facility

1. Wanted no tax money to go to black people

2. Concerned for white women’s safety

3. Wanted to control the hospital

4. Complained too many smart black people

5. White people wanted the jobs

6. White physicians wanted to use blacks as research subjects

7. Whites wanted white doctors who were rejected everywhere else to work there

Black person who was seen as clean, smart, dressed well.

A syphilis research experiment in 1932 on black men who were low income. There was no consent. The men were used as test subjects to reveal the long term effects of syphilis and to study its treatments.

Not to send blacks to jail, but to use them for Convict Leasing

When black people would “break” the law, the convicts would be leased out to landowners and work as slaves

1. The state doesn’t have to pay to build prisons

2. The state didn’t have to staff the prisons

3. Blacks were put in their “rightful” place

4. Black people were working for free

1. Work in agriculture

2. Work on railroads

3. Work on building buildings and bridges

They were deeds attached to properties to prevent black people from buying land/houses

People designed to run black business owners out of town

• Blacks should receive a liberal arts degree with classical education (North)

• Blacks should receive industrial degrees (South)