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Questions:

1. How were the Black Codes similar to and different from the Jim Crow laws that emerged after 1890?
2. What was different about the terror wrought by the Ku Klux Klan and the terror of lynching that began in 1880? How were the two forms of terror part of the same continuation of white supremacy stemming from the days of slavery?

3. Why do you think black men gained the right to vote during Reconstruction but did not earn the right to the land they had worked as enslaved people and which was owned by whites who had revolted against the United States during the Civil War?
4. Why do you think the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments excluded black women from voting? Do you believe that the history of Reconstruction and Jim Crow might have been different had white and black women obtained franchises immediately after the Civil War?
5. Some historians claim that the vicious lynching of African Americans that began in the The 1880s, with stepped-up frequency, was different from anything in the past because of its mob, public spectacle. What does this mean? Was lynching like a circus? How is this
explained?
6. Do you see a relationship between years of depicting African Americans as inferior people in the popular media, such as minstrel shows, and the ease with which blacks were lynched and deprived of their civil rights? How do you think this worked? Do you see any similarities to depicting people as inferior and the use of violence against them in other periods of American history?
7. What was new about how black men were deprived of their right to vote after 1890 and how they were deprived of their vote before 1890? Why was the new form of disfranchisement more acceptable and easier to enforce thane older conditions used against blacks pribefore90?
8. Why do you think it mattered to white people that the races were separated legally rather than by custom after 1890? What can you imagine the motivation to have been on the part of white people to want to establish a "color line formally?"
9. What do you think the federal government might have done to stop the creation of a Jim Crow society in the South? Would anything have worked? Why did the federal government essentially stop trying to protect the civil rights of southern blacks after the Compromise of 1877?
10. Do you think that you could have lived as a black person in the Jim Crow South? How would you have coped? What would you have done to survive? What would have been the most challenging thing for you as a young black person to have accepted or managed within
Mississippi or Georgia at the peak of Jim Crow terrorism? Answer the same questions from the perspective of a young white person.