New South

What was the New South? New South- Term describing Post Reconstruction South Jim Crow Laws- limited African American rights

Southern African Americans Blacks were elected congressmen, mayors and state legislators Black schools, and Facilities were built

Disenfranchised Disenfranchised- having your right of suffrage revoked Literacy test- pass a reading test Poll tax- pay a tax to vote Grandfather clause- allowed whites to avoid poll tax and literacy test

Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan- secret organization in the southern U.S. aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of African Americans Lynching and violent acts

Ida B. Wells Newspaper editor Wrote The Red Record -detailed the number of lynching's by KKK in South

Plessy V. Ferguson Supreme Court Case Ruled that African Americans “Separate but equal,” did not violate the 14th Amendment Upheld the “Jim Crow” laws of the era

Exodusters Exodusters-African Americans began moving West in search of jobs to escape poverty and discrimination in the South