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Question: What are three techniques the South employed to restrict the social and political rights of African Americans!?
**FOLLOWING THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Impossibly difficult tests were introduced which African Americans had to pass in order to qualify to vote, they were hopelessly difficult!. They would have to do something like reading a complex legal document and then interpreting it, something you'd only really expect a trained lawyer to be able to do rather than an ordinary person!.

And even if someone managed to pass the hurdle and qualify to vote, they would be discouraged from doing so by threats, intimidation and outright violence!.

The infamous and horrible custom of lynching of course was another way in which the African American community was systematically terrorised!.

And of course segregation, which enshrined the black person in an inferior positon!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

1) laws curtailing freedom of movement and association, job choice, etc (first "Black Codes", then 'separate-but-equal' "Jim Crow" laws)

2) intimidation, including violence, lynching (to keep blacks from voting, for example)

3) created legal hurdles to voting - "poll taxes" and tricky 'literacy' tests!.!.!. but with "grandfather" clauses so those who had already had voting rights were exempt (so that the restrictions TARGETED blacks)Www@QuestionHome@Com

the whip, shackles , and of course the nooseWww@QuestionHome@Com

jim crow lawsWww@QuestionHome@Com

Black Codes
the Grandfather Clause
Jim Crow LawsWww@QuestionHome@Com

The following is a complete list of all the restrictions and techniques used in the South after the Civil War, I warn you it is long:

This is the list of the restrictions that were enforced against blacks during this time period!. Essentially, they are the complete opposite of what you are looking for!.

From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows)!. From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race!. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated!.

Here is a sampling of laws from various states!.
Nurses No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which ***** men are placed!. Alabama

Buses All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races!. Alabama

Railroads The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs!. Alabama

Restaurants It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment!. Alabama

Pool and Billiard Rooms It shall be unlawful for a ***** and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards!. Alabama

Toilet Facilities, Male Every employer of white or ***** males shall provide for such white or ***** males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities!. Alabama

Intermarriage The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a *****, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void!. Arizona

Intermarriage All marriages between a white person and a *****, or between a white person and a person of ***** descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited!. Florida

Cohabitation Any ***** man and white woman, or any white man and ***** woman, who are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500!.00) dollars!. Florida

Education The schools for white children and the schools for ***** children shall be conducted separately!. Florida

Juvenile Delinquents There shall be separate buildings, not nearer than one fourth mile to each other, one for white boys and one for ***** boys!. White boys and ***** boys shall not, in any manner, be associated together or worked together!. Florida

Mental Hospitals The Board of Control shall see that proper and distinct apartments are arranged for said patients, so that in no case shall Negroes and white persons be together!. Georgia

Intermarriage It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white person!. Any marriage in violation of this section shall be void!. Georgia

Barbers No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls!. Georgia

Burial The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons!. Georgia

Restaurants All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same license!. Georgia

Amateur Baseball It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play baseball on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the ***** race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race!. Georgia

Parks It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of white persons!.!.!.and unlawful for any white person to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the use and benefit of colored persons!. Georgia

Wine and Beer All persons licensed to conduct the business of selling beer or wine!.!.!.shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room at any time!. Georgia

Reform Schools The children of white and colored races committed to the houses of reform shall be kept entirely separate from each other!. Kentucky

Circus Tickets All circuses, shows, and tent exhibitions, to which the attendance of!.!.!.more than one race is invited or expected to attend shall provide for the convenience of its patrons not less than two ticket offices with individual ticket sellers, and not less than two entrances to the said performance, with individual ticket takers and receivers, and in the case of outside or tent performances, the said ticket offices shall not be less than twenty-five (25) feet apart!. Louisiana

Housing Any person!.!.!.who shall rent any part of any such building to a ***** person or a ***** family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family, or vice versa when the building is in occupancy by a ***** person or ***** family, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25!.00) nor more than one hundred ($100!.00) dollars or be imprisoned not less than 10, or more than 60 days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court!. Louisiana

The Blind The board of trustees shall!.!.!.maintain a separate building!.!.!.on separate ground for the admission, care, instruction, and support of all blind persons of the colored or black race!. Louisiana

Intermarriage All marriages between a white person and a *****, or between a white person and a person of ***** descent, to the third generation, inclusive, or between a white person and a member of the Malay race; or between the ***** a nd a member of the Malay race; or between a person of ***** descent, to the third generation, inclusive, and a member of the Malay race, are forever prohibited, and shall be void!. Maryland

Railroads All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons running or operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track in the State of Maryland, for the transportation of passengers, are hereby required to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and transportation of the white and colored passengers!. Maryland

Education Separate schools shall be maintained for the children of the white and colored races!. Mississippi

Promotion of Equality Any person!.!.!.who shall be guilty of printing, publishing or circulating printed, typewritten or written matter urging or presenting for public acceptance or general information, arguments or suggestions in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fine or not exceeding five hundred (500!.00) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months or both!. Mississippi

Intermarriage The marriage of a white person with a ***** or mulatto or person who shall have one-eighth or more of ***** blood, shall be unlawful and void!. Mississippi

Hospital Entrances There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained by the state for treatment of white and colored patients separate entrances for white and colored patients and visitors, and such entrances shall be used by the race only for which they are prepared!. Mississippi

Prisons The warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments for both eating and sleeping from the ***** convicts!. Mississippi

Education Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school!. Missouri

Intermarriage All marriages between!.!.!.white persons and negroes or white persons and Mongolians!.!.!.are prohibited and declared absolutely void!.!.!.No person having one-eighth part or more of ***** blood shall be permitted to marry any white person, nor shall any white person be permitted to marry any ***** or person having one-eighth part or more of ***** blood!. Missouri

Education Separate rooms [shall] be provided for the teaching of pupils of African descent, and [when] said rooms are so provided, such pupils may not be admitted to the school rooms occupied and used by pupils of Caucasian or other descent!. New Mexico

Textbooks Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them!. North Carolina

Libraries The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or periodicals!. North Carolina

Militia The white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled, and shall never be compelled to serve in the same organization!.No organization of colored troops shall be permitted where white troops are available, and while white permitted to be organized, colored troops sWww@QuestionHome@Com