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Course: AP??/College US History?>?Unit 6
Lesson 4: The "New South"- The Compromise of 1877
- Life after slavery for African Americans
- The New South
- The origins of Jim Crow - introduction
- Origins of Jim Crow - the Black Codes and Reconstruction
- Origins of Jim Crow - the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
- Origins of Jim Crow - Compromise of 1877 and Plessy v. Ferguson
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Jim Crow
- The New South
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The New South
Problem
“Once segregation began, there was no logical place for it to stop. If railroad cars were segregated, why not railroad stations, even ticket windows? If jails were segregated, why not courtrooms, even the Bibles on which witnesses swore? . . . Whites touted segregation as a way to ensure social peace, to reduce conflict in public places, to make sure that blacks received at least some social services. The newer a place or institution, the more certain it was to be segregated.”
-Edward L. Ayers, historian, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction, 2007.
The developments described in the excerpt best illustrate which of the following?