HISTORY 21C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Foot Binding, Qiu Jin, Jim Crow Laws
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In us, china, england, egypt late 19th + early 20th centuries. New women: usually edu + paid work + active role in advocating for more rights. Mid 1870s, 1500 black men held elected/appointed government office in us. By time 20s, she was journalist w/ own newspaper called free speech. Critic of lynching + mob violence against blacks. Mob violence explodes in 1870s/80s as reaction to blacks feeling a lot more empowered during reconstruction 14th + 15th amendments. Some 4,000 new schools get built for blacks during this time + get land. Kkk also emerges during this time to try to limit power blacks getting over whites. Once federal troops leave occupation of south >even more violence + all of these laws passed to bar political rights + interracial marriage (jim crow laws) The lynching she writes about is a new kind of violence. Starts keeping track of all lynchings + publishes it all in her paper.
