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Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina, African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black government during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, but with the 1876 inauguration of Governor Wade Hampton III, a Democrat who supported the disenfranchisement of blacks, African Americans in South Carolina struggled to ...
This is a list of examples of Jim Crow laws, which were state, territorial, and local laws in the United States enacted between 1877 and 1965. Jim Crow laws existed throughout the United States and originated from the Black Codes that were passed from 1865 to 1866 and from before the American Civil War.
The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Gates, Henry Louis Jr. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. New York: Penguin Press, 2019. ISBN 0-5255-5953-1; Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina ...
Continuing school segregation exists in Mississippi, South Carolina, and other communities where whites are separated from blacks. [182] Segregation is not limited to areas in the Deep South. In New York City, 19 out of 32 school districts had fewer white students.
The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction (Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1924), by a pioneer Black scholar. online. Tindall, George Brown. South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900 (1952), online; Wikramanayake, Marina. A World in Shadow: The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina (University of South Carolina Press ...
[177] [178] Attorney General George H. Williams, Akerman's replacement, suspended his prosecutions of the Klan in North Carolina and South Carolina in the Spring of 1873, but prior to the election of 1874, he changed course and prosecuted the Klan. [179] Civil rights prosecutions continued but with fewer yearly cases and convictions. [180]
Mississippi and South Carolina were ... Missouri enacted racial segregation, but did not disenfranchise African Americans, who comprised less than 10% of the state's ...
The 1865 South Carolina constitution created after the Civil War did not provide newly freed African-Americans suffrage. [10] This was in conflict with the Reconstruction Act of 1867 and led South Carolina to need a new constitution.