Quick Write:Describe what you know of the

brutality faced by African Americans living under Jim

Crow

Reconstruction is Reversed

• African American’s in the South• Face increased discrimination under Jim

Crow• Society is segregated• What were some of the rules of Jim Crow?• What happened to those to disobeyed the

rules?

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Number of Lynchings in the United State 1880-1968

• 1880-1884 233• 1885-1889 381• 1890-1894 611• 1895-1899 500• 1900-1904 456• 1905-1909 335• 1910-1914 291• 1915-1919 278• 1920-1924 208

• 1925-1929 73• 1930-1934 77• 1935-1939 42• 1940-1944 19• 1945-1949 12• 1950-1954 2• 1955-1959 4• 1960-1964 3• 1965-1968 0• TOTAL 3,525

African Americans Protest Conditions

• NAACP

• Urban League

• Harlem Renaissance

• Iba B. Wells Anti Lynching Campaign

• Commission on Interracial Cooperation

• The Communist Party

Migration rates of African Americans from the South

1870-1950

• Why are Blacks leaving the South?

• 1870-1880 - 68,000

• 1880-1890 - 88,000

• 1890-1900 - 185,000

• 1900-1910 - 194,000

• 1910-1920 - 555,000

• 1920-1930 - 903,000

• 1930-1940 - 408,000

• 1940-1950 - 1,581,000

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