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23 October, 09:49

How did segregation and discrimination affect the lives of African Americans at the turn of the 20th century?

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    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.
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