L2: African American Life After Reconstruction: Segregation, Jim Crow, and Racial Terrorism

L2: African American Life After Reconstruction: Segregation, Jim Crow, and Racial Terrorism

Equality and Hierarchy: The African American Experience

AgendaObjective: 1. To understand White

attempts to rebuild the social structure of the South following Reconstruction and the role of Jim Crow Laws and lynching in that process.

Schedule: 2. Group discussion of Jim

Crow Laws3. Group discussion of

lynching4. Putting it all together in

a whole class discussion

Homework:1.Consult Unit

Schedule. Remember: 1. Read Primary

Sources for Discussion Next Class.

2. Reconstruction Paper Pre-Writing Check Due Next Class (Tan=Thurs; Red & Blue = Fri)

The Jim Crow South• The Jim Crow South was a period in which whites tried to reinstate their definition of social order (racial inequality) following the normlessness of Reconstruction (1877- early 1900s for our purposes).• Today we want to understand the social order created in the Jim Crow South by examining….

– What threats/obstacles/fears did Whites see as challenging/attacking the social order?

– What was the view of race held by Whites at this time?– How were views about class and gender tied up with ideas of

race?– What was the social order that was created in the Jim Crow

South? What do race relations look like?

Tasks for Today• Part One: Group Investigation of Jim Crow

South– You will take a look at two aspects of the Jim Crow South:

• Jim Crow Laws• Lynching

– You will discuss our guiding questions with your group after looking at each aspect• What threats/obstacles/fears did Whites see as

challenging/attacking the social order?• What was the view of race held by Whites at this time?• How were views about class and gender tied up with ideas of

race?• What was the social order that was created in the Jim Crow

South? What do race relations look like?• Part Two: Whole Class Discussion of the Ideas

Generated in Our Groups

Aspect One: Jim Crow Laws• What are they?• Your task:

– Review an excerpted list of Jim Crow laws

– Briefly discuss our guiding questions with your group:• What threats/obstacles/fears did

Whites see as challenging/attacking the social order?

• What was the view of race held by Whites at this time?

• How were views about class and gender tied up with ideas of race?

• What was the social order that was created in the Jim Crow South? What do race relations look like?

• Take 10 Minutes!

Aspect Two: Lynching• What is lynching?• Your task:

– We will listen to a brief excerpt from a lecture on lynching by Yale University Professor Jonathan Holloway (23:00 to 30:00)

– Briefly discuss our guiding questions with your group:• What threats/obstacles/fears did

Whites see as challenging/attacking the social order?

• What was the view of race held by Whites at this time?

• How were views about class and gender tied up with ideas of race?

• What was the social order that was created in the Jim Crow South? What do race relations look like?

• Take 7 minutes!

Whole Class Discussion• What threats/obstacles/fears did Whites see

as challenging/attacking the social order?• What was the view of race held by Whites at

this time?• How were views about class and gender tied

up with ideas of race?• What was the social order that was created in

the Jim Crow South? What do race relations look like between 1877 and the early 1900s?