HIST 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Federal Housing Administration, Debt Bondage, Sharecropping
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Black families in the south desired the protection of the law. Majority of the people in the state of mississippi were perpetually robbed of the. Hijacking engineered through the trickery of the poll tax and the lynch their right to vote. Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in mississippi than in any mob. other state. Refusing to work meant arrest under vagrancy laws and forced labor under the state"s penal system. Some of the land taken from black families has become country clubs, oil fields in. Mississippi, a baseball spring training facility in florida. Landowners were supposed to split the profits from the cotton fields with sharecroppers. But bales would often disappear during the count, or the split might be altered on a whim. Children had to walk miles to get to colored school. A mass exodus of 6 million african americans that spanned most of the 20th.
