The whites thought that sooner or later if we let them vote that they’re going to take over. The Jim Crow Laws system stopped the blacks from voting. That caught the Civil Right leaders and that brought attention to Mississippi. That made it acceptable for that 7% of black people to vote. In Document B which was a “Freedom Summer Pamphlet.”
Ford argues “Today's black underclass may not be as poor as many blacks were in the 1950s, but its isolation from the mainstream and from positive role models is actually worse.” This shows that there is in fact a correlation with social and economic structure in the negligence of education towards black students.” Lubrano says “They feel pressure from other working class friends to not participate and are told that they are being educated is effeminate and irrelevant” Ford cakn use Lubranos comparison between blue-collar kids and white-collar kids, where the black community would represent the blue-collar workers (working class) and the white community would represent white-collar workers (middle class). This argument could help frame Fords point on whites being the exclusive domain in the mainstream
Bettina Love supports her thesis that the education system is broken and unsupportive of dark children through history. The reason we learn history is to learn from the mistakes and successes of others; Dr. Love points out that the negative aspects of American history are still prevalent today. After the Civil War, former slaves worked as sharecroppers for plantation owners in hopes of repaying debt. The debt was impossible to pay, and the plantation owners continued to put the former slaves to work without fair pay. Love analogizes the situation to the broken education system, saying that, “black students are sharecroppers, never able to make up the cost or close the gap because they are learning in a state of perpetual debt with no relief in sight” ((Love, 2019, p. 92).
It also states that assistance should be provided to those who are disabled. In many southern states, the local government would administer literacy test as a barrier for individuals trying to register to vote. These tests were created with the intention of disenfranchising blacks. Without the right to vote, they could not cast their voice for individuals who would change legislation.
While a literacy test, elaborate registration systems, and a poll tax do not appear to be meant to eliminate a race from voting, these factors were designed to exclude colored voters, and it was successful. For example, in Mississippi, fewer than 9,000 of the 147,000 voting- age African Americans were registered after 1890. (Whites Only; Jim Crow in America). The Jim Crow laws also violated the fourteenth amendment. “, Anyone born or naturalized in the United States is a citizen and that “, no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person the equal protection of the law”.
When Congress passed Amendments XIII, XIV, and XV the plan was to legalize privileges granted to all parties in the reconstruction process, and to make known consequences if not followed. Unfortunately these precepts were not strictly enforced and the white south reverted to previous behaviors. Conveniently Mississippi devised their own plan to control the lives of the black populace. The Mississippi plan spells out the intentions of the white south to curb the influence of the black population.
In Jonathan Kozol’s article “still separate, still unequal: America’s educational apartheid” Kozol argues that the current American school system is putting racial groups at a disadvantage by splitting them from richer urban school by their location that they live by putting them in underfunded city schools; which undermines and voids anti segregation movements such as the brown v board that were set up during the civil rights movement. “Educators make the argument today that... our only realistic goal should be the nurturing of strong, empowered, and well-funded schools in segregated neighborhoods. Black school officials in these situations have sometimes conveyed to me a bitter and clear-sighted recognition that they're being asked...to mediate and render functional an uncontested separation between children of their race and children of white people living...sometimes in almost their own immediate communities... And some...do not even dare to ask for, or expect, complete equality...but look instead for only a sufficiency of means—"adequacy"...
" Even being the most educated person graduating in his time, this black young man would be beaten out of any possible job by any white man who wanted it. The discouragement brought from the little to no economic freedom blacks had compared to whites must have been nauseating to the black people looking for
They went so far as to flog, mutilate, and even lynch blacks” (“The End of Reconstruction”). Along with the terrorist mindset, the Mississippi Plan was put into action. The Mississippi Plan was mainly against blacks and poor whites. The men in charge of the official voting book switched the book for the blacks and poor whites to sign from the actual voting registry to a “dead book” (Rowan). It was a way to manipulate elections by using voting fraud and trickery by taking advantage of the open voting process during that time.
It was only a matter of time before racial disputes became prominent again. Black males were viably stripped from the privilege to vote in 1890. The Mississippi Plan or, “The Disenfranchisement Plan first
“Public schools for black children received less funding, less maintenance, and less teacher training,”(Source 1). Under those circumstances black children did not get as good of an education as white children. There were other issues regarding education to, for example in 1957 when integration started in Central High school segregationist harshly acted on the issue. ” When the black students, known as the “Little Rock Nine,” attempted to enter the Central High
There are a lot of things that have made Mississippi what it has became today. Mississippi has come through a lot of different things. People, events, and ideas from the past has really shaped and formed the modern day Mississippi in many ways. Some of the things that made Mississippi and had a great affect on our state includes the following: Mississippi Blues Music, The American Civil War, the famous casinos, food and attractions. Blues music is a huge part of Mississippi.
Although African Americans have been considered free in terms of the law, in some states, especially Mississippi in the early sixties, the Caucasian population had not evolved past the discrimination and hate they felt towards African Americans. But there were people that wanted to help the African Americans in the deep South. These Civil Rights activists were the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC)(Wisconsin). College students from all over America were recruited to help the African Americans with their racial injustice. Freedom summer wanted to do three things for the Mississippi blacks (Wisconsin).
The law were enacted to ensure that white and blacks were afford separate experiences and privilege. An example of such a measure was the segregation of facilities, such as schools, theaters, hospital, and restroom. In an effort to have this law abolished, in the South blacks had sit-in and boycotts and a marched on Washington, they were often met with violence from their white counter parts, who opposed their efforts and wanted things to remain the same. However there efforts paid off and segregation of institutions was declared Unconstitutional. Furthermore here are some ways the black vote was suppressed, literacy testing, Violence, intimidation, and the grand father clause, however these voting laws primarily effected black men because women had the right to vote long before they did.
As it is today, if you’re not born into your wealth, the primary way for people to escape from poverty is through education. Slavery was causing extreme soil exhaustion, held blacks, the South, and the U.S. as a whole, from reaching its full potential. Slavery would never have become as powerful as it was, without the countless
