Constitution were passed. ... Also Poll taxes were passed. ... The public schools were funded by property taxes. Since few blacks actually owned property, and that which was owned by blacks was of little value, the schools in black neighborhoods were always of lower quality than those in white neighborhoods. ... Later in 1968 President Johnson got a bill passed that ended discrimination in housing. ...
There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. ... Whites saw emancipation as the reason for loss of the nation's largest concentration of private property." (Current, pg.88) Planters went from owning blacks as property, to negotiating a wage in exchange for their labor. ...
This was called sharecropping, which is when most blacks could not afford their own land so they kept part of their crop and gave the rest to the landowner while living on his property (Norton. ... They began to pass local and state laws that particularized certain places "For Whites Only" and others for "Colored." ... But the requirements included: the ability to read and write, which disqualified the many blacks who had little access to education; property ownership, something few blacks were able to obtain; and paying a poll tax, which was too great a responsibility on most Southern blac...
I had never been passed State and Madison or Western and 65th street. ... We were in some sense at peace with what we had because we felt it could have been worse, we could be house salves being sold as property again. ... Our teachers would have to copy pages from books and pass out to the students because sometime they did not have enough books or we would have to share a book with another student in your class. ...
President Kennedy was never able to mobilize sufficient support to pass a civil rights bill with teeth over the opposition of segregationist southern members of congress. ... Hour after hour, the toll mounted: 27 dead at the week's end, nearly 600 injured, 1700 arrested, and property damage well over $100 million. ...
Eventually Chopin revealed that Armand was the one that carried the black genes that were passed on to the child, but because Desiree was constrained by the restrictions of her sex, she was blamed for the "unconscious injury she had brought upon Armand's home and his name" (Chopin). ... In conclusion, Kate Chopin's works, for example, "Desiree's Baby" and "Story of an Hour" showed me that during that era women were treated as property. ...
