Answer:
Explanation:
African Americans are victimized by voting restrictions, All
Southern states imposed new
voting restrictions and denied
legal equality to African
Americans. Some states, for
example, limited the vote to
people who could read, and
required registration officials
to administer a literacy test to
test reading. Blacks trying to
vote were often asked
difficult questions,
or given a test in a foreign lan-
guage. Officials could pass or
fail applicants as they wished.
African Americans faced not only formal discrimination but also informal rules
and customs, called racial etiquette, that regulated relationships between whites
and blacks. Usually, these customs belittled and humiliated African Americans,
enforcing their second-class status. For example, blacks and whites never shook
hands, since shaking hands would have implied equality. Blacks also had to yield
the sidewalk to white pedestrians, and black men always had to remove their hats for whites.
African Americans who did not fol-
low the racial etiquette could face severe punishment or
death. All too often, blacks who were accused of violating
the etiquette were lynched Between 1882 and 1892, more
than 1,400 African-American men and women were shot,
burned, or hanged without trial in the South. Lynching
peaked in the 1880s and 1890s but continued well into the
20th century.
