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Leonard Moore History of Jim Crow Laws UT Austin Midterm review
What 7 things black people do after becoming free? (in order)
Get away from the plantations
Rebuilt their families
Changed their names
Purchased Property
Created Black Churches
Created Black Schools
Established Businesses
13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery
14th Amendment
Gave black people citizenship
15th Amendment
Gave black men the right to vote
Segregation 5 Part Process
Physical separation of races
Eliminated blacks w/ violence
Made it hard for blacks to live
Took away the right to vote
Manipulated criminal justice system
Jim Crow Justice System 7 Step Process
Arrest a black person
Take accused away
Take them to trial
Quick trial
Conviction
Sentencing
Lynching
Why did white people limit black education? (3 reasons)
Limit black political ambitions
Keep Large source of cheap labor
Discourage black independence
Why was lynching celebrated?
So white people could maintain control politically and economically
School Segregation Ended: List 4 main results
Black schools closed
Black faculty lost their jobs
Blacks have no desire to be teachers
Black children will be taught by people who don’t know them
What 6 things did black parents request from white school officials?
Modern school architecture
Bus transportation
Raise for black bus drivers
School term increased to 9 months
Better teachers for black schools
Do away with all school inequalities based on race
What is the relationship between black people and healthcare?
Black people have always been used as lab rats. No trust towards healthcare system
Why was the National Medical Association created? (6 reasons)
Give black physicians a voice
Form a network for research purposes
create a network for black physicians
Create healthy living conditions for black people
Publish medical journals to have accessible healthcare
Create local medical societies to meet and discuss black healthcare
How did black women affect the healthcare system? (3 main effects)
Led fundraising campaigns for black hospitals
Donated themselves
Ran nurse and hospital training programs
Tuskegee's Veterans Hospital
Place for black veterans to get help, employ black nurses and doctors, modern facility
7 Reasons Whites Were Against The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital
Wanted no tax money to go to black people
Concerned for white women’s safety
Wanted to control the hospital
Complained too many smart black people
White people wanted the jobs
White physicians wanted to use blacks as research subjects
Whites wanted white doctors who were rejected everywhere else to work there
What is an “Uppity” Black Person?
Black person who was seen as clean, smart, dressed well.
What was the Tuskegee Experiment?
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.
What was the goal of the criminal justice system during Jim Crow?
Not to send blacks to jail, but to use them for Convict Leasing
What is Convict Leasing?
When black people would “break” the law, the convicts would be leased out to landowners and work as slaves
Why was Convict Leasing successful? (4 reasons)
The state doesn’t have to pay to build prisons
The state didn’t have to staff the prisons
Blacks were put in their “rightful” place
Black people were working for free
What 3 main kind of work would convicts do when leased?
Work in agriculture
Work on railroads
Work on building buildings and bridges
What were Restrictive Covenants?
They were deeds attached to properties to prevent black people from buying land/houses
What were White Caps?
People designed to run black business owners out of town
What were the 2 main viewpoints of the North and South regarding black education?
Blacks should receive a liberal arts degree with classical education (North)
Blacks should receive industrial degrees (South)
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