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Great Migration
The great migration in African American History
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History
Undergraduate 3
12/18/2015

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Term
Great Migration
Definition
Mvmt of A. Americans from rural South to Urban North, Midwest and West
Term
Exodusters
Definition

First migration of African Americans after civil war

 

To Kansas

Term
How many Cowboys were Black?
Definition
1 in 4
Term
Land owners vs Free grazers
Definition

Land owners put up illegal fences

 

Go to war against free grazers

Term
Deadwood Dick
Definition

Fictional character--> Dime novels

South freedman

Tales of West as they happened

Term
Liberian Exodus Joint Stock Co.
Definition

"Leave the injustices in the US, go back to Africa"

 

Company goes bankrupt b/c

 

23 Black ppl die on the way over

 

Water runs out before they make it, food is shitty and runs out right when they get there

Term
Northern fear of migration
Definition

Too much #'s, not enough jobs

 

Causes more segregation

 

Rebirth of KKK

Term
KKK rebirth 1915
Definition
KKK is reborn due to fear of migrating Blacks
Term
Jim Crow Laws
Definition

Sttate and local laws enforcing segregation in:

 

Pub schools

Pub transportation

Labour unions

Military

Term
Important Trials (Jim Crow)
Definition

Slaughterhouse cases

 

Civil Rights decision 1883 (social rights)

 

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Term
Slaughterhouse cases
Definition

14th Amendment doesn't apply to state laws

 

Raises Q of civil rights

Term
Civil Rights decision
Definition

Fed gov't has no jurisdiction over social rights

 

Just political rights

 

Privat corps and ppl can discrim as much as they want

Term
Plessy vs. Ferguson (1892)
Definition

Seperate but Equal

 

Black ppl stamped w/ badge of inferiority

 

Maintained state laws of segregation

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