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they couldn’t vote if they couldn’t read and write
they had to pass
a literate test in order to have been able to vote but most of them failed because they
couldn’t read the task, write the answers and the test itself was too difficult for them
double legislation at the level of states + union
lynching = killing usually black men by several people (it was difficult to say who was guilty)
lynching was against naughty, black people, against serious accusations
a white man could approach a black woman but a black man couldn’t approach a white woman
SEGREGATION:
there were separate schools, universities, coffee places, shops, restaurants, swimming pools, beaches,
medical facilities, cemeteries, buses or trains
hotel: there were separate doors for white and for black people and separate rooms
bus/train: there were different carriages for whites and blacks
or the blacks had to sit at the back and the whites in the front
the facilities of black people weren’t as good as the ones of white people
white people were meant to be better than the black ones
1965 Lyndon Johnson abolished this legislation by a federal law
J. F. Kennedy strove to equal blacks and whites but he was murdered before he succeeded
2)
The Ku Klux Klan = a secret terrorist society (Christian organisation + racist organisation)
aim: to threaten black people and prevent them from claiming their rights
they wore white sheets over a face, hoodies and acted at night
it should have punished black people who had become too naughty because of the result of the war
it was meant to defend the white supremacy because Blacks had the same rights as Whites
tried to discourage black people from voting (they were citizens and they could vote)
Blacks lived in countryside: you had crops? you lost it; you had a farm? you lost it!
they set fire on a property of a black family sending them a message: