[HIST 370] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 84 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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Jury selection was undercut by registration: cannot vote and out of the pools of being part of the jury, part of the process of eliminating them from voting rights. Extralegal pressures left the blacks out of the court process: pressures on the court, something dangerous to do, difficult for blacks as well to testify in court, risky. Close relationship between the creation and the institutionalization and operation of the jim crow system: began in 1890s until 1960s, constant threat of violence. Justice system issued incredibly hard consequences: eg. Forced harsh labour with prisoners working as they were chained together: much like slavery, would be whipped if they were not working hard enough, living conditions brutal. Alabama executed people on the death row with the electric chair: violence was legal. Almost as if it is part of a plan. Waves of murders especially mob violence and lynching: historic increase in the level of lynching crimes:
