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Before the end of Jim Crow thousands of African-American males and females would die by lynching. ” Made famous in 1939 by Billie Holiday, an African-American blues singer, the ballad gives a mock-lyrical description of black bodies left hanging from trees for all to see. ” Although the Jim Crow ethos manifested itself in the form of rigid, racially repressive laws in the South, it reared its head in the North mainly in the form of social norms. Though the norms in many ways required less segregation than the laws, they were rigorously enforced and often just as racially repressive.
Johnson, Paul (1998). A History of the American People. New York: HarperCollins. Klarman, Michael J. (2003). From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. New York: Oxford University Press. Kluger, Richard (1976). Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Litwack, Leon (1961). North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Litwack, Leon (1979).
Neither is fit to perform the supreme function of citizenship” (Brooks, 1999, p. 395). Accordingly, the Mississippi constitution was amended to include the establishment of a $2 poll tax and a literacy test as preconditions to exercising the right to vote. The latter required the prospective voter to read a section of the state constitution selected by an election official (who was invariably white) and/or to answer questions in such a way as to prove to the official that he had understood what had been read.