Book contents
- Never Together
- Studies in New Economic Thinking
- Never Together
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 1 Slavery and the Civil War
- Chapter 2 Reconstruction
- Chapter 3 The Gilded Age and Jim Crow Laws
- Part II The Twentieth Century
- Part III The Twenty-First Century
- References
- Index
Chapter 3 - The Gilded Age and Jim Crow Laws
from Part I - The Nineteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2022
- Never Together
- Studies in New Economic Thinking
- Never Together
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 1 Slavery and the Civil War
- Chapter 2 Reconstruction
- Chapter 3 The Gilded Age and Jim Crow Laws
- Part II The Twentieth Century
- Part III The Twenty-First Century
- References
- Index
Summary
Reconstruction ended in 1876 as railroads, mining, and agriculture grew. Robber Barons emerged as the leaders of these activities became rich. The Supreme Court in the 1880s eliminated the constitutional amendments passed during Reconstruction to help Blacks by either rejecting them or reinterpreting them. Jim Crow laws were passed in many Southern states after 1896 depriving Blacks of the vote and leading to a decline in Black education. I describe the movie, Birth of a Nation, to show the attitude of white people at the time of World War I toward Blacks and Reconstruction. Those views have been shown since to be totally false.
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- Never TogetherThe Economic History of a Segregated America, pp. 91 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022