Race Relations 1877-1900
Race Relations 1877-1900 Compromise of 1877 Hayes compromise victory ends reconstruction. Atlanta Speech Southern blacks ?rights and interests would be safer? if southern whites ?let alone? by Federal gov?t. 1930 ? 80% of African-Americans live in South. (Post-Great Migration ? higher % in late 1800s) Race Relations ? ?Southern Problem? SC Court decisions Limited Pres. Influence Resurgent State?s rights attitudes of ?redeemers? Black voting common in South to 1900 despite 2nd class status. Better for blacks to support the ?better? (conservative, wealthy whites) than to ?fight the power? and be the victims of poor white racism. Blacks exchange votes for protection by wealthy white power structure. Sharecropping, crop-lien, tenant farm subservience. Evolution of Disenfranchisement