HIST 2112 Study Guide - Final Guide: Jim Crow Laws, Grandfather Clause, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Document Summary
Grady 1850-89: editor of the atlanta constitutionused this to promote new south. Planters: farmers w/ large plantations (500+ acres) Democrats who took control of southern politics and gov"t after reconstruction. The rise of jim crow in the south. Began in the late 1800s with segregated railroad car laws in southern states. Jim crow laws were challenged but upheld in the supreme court case plessy v. Between 1889-1908, all 11 ex-confederate states adopted laws that restricted voting rights for black and sometimes poor white men. The mississippi plan (1890) set the model: *some states created a grandfather clause as a loophole for poor white men. Williams was tried for murder by an all-white jury, so he tried to contest the fact that. Mississippi was restricting the rights of blacks by not allowing them to vote, so the jury was not composed of his peers. Supreme court ruling that upheld the mississippi plan/southern state disfranchisement laws.
