Short-Term Issues
Short-term issues increased the tension as well. They included poll taxes, lynching, and various segregation laws. Issues that arose made the tensions between the two races worse until they sparked the conflict that soon led to the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Poll taxes were mostly used to disenfranchise blacks. Other methods used were the grandfather clause, literacy tests, and intimidation.
Lynching was used as a method of intimidation to scare away blacks that wanted to take advantage of their right to vote. This practice was not only used in the South, but it spread to other places across the country. It was even used as far North as Duluth Minnesota, which goes to show how many people wanted to discourage blacks from claiming their rights. |
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There were many segregation laws in the South before the actual case. Including the Separate Car Act in 1890 which was a direct cause of the case. It was this act that Homer Plessy refused to pay a fine for when he violated it by riding in the white car.