Question

Explain how the liberty of blacks gave way to legal segregation across the south after 1877. (i.e. the grandfather clause; literacy and understanding tests; poll taxes; violence and intimidation)

Answer 1

The Jim crow laws, entrenched segregation.Supreme Court allowed legal segregation - invalidated Civil Rights Act, Sapless vs. Ferguson and separate but equal doctrine. this made some early activist like Booker T Washington to urge black Americans to accept segregation. The year after 1877, is important because it marked the end of reconstruction, after the compromise, when southern states were granted rights to deal with african Americans the way they desired.