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A Brief History of Jim Crow
“I can ride in first-class cars on the railroads and in the streets,” wrote journalist T. McCants Stewart.
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“I can stop in and drink a glass of soda and be more politely waited upon than in some parts of New England.” Perhaps Stewart’s comments don’t seem newsworthy. Consider that he was reporting from South Carolina in and he was black.
A marker in New Orleans stands where Homer Plessy was arrested in His case ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court and resulted in an infamous decision creating the legal doctrine of “separate, but equal.” (Wikimedia Commons) |
Stewart had decided to tour the South because he feared for freedmen’s liberties.
In , with Amendment XIV, the Constitution had finally given black men full citizenship and promised them equal protection under the law. Blacks voted, won elected office, and served on juries. However, 10 years later, federal troops withdrew from the South, returning it to local white rule.
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