South Carolina in the civil rights movement
Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina, African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black government during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, but with the 1876 inauguration of Governor Wade Hampton III, a Democrat who supported the disenfranchisement of blacks, African Americans in South Carolina struggled to exercise their rights. Poll taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation kept African Americans from voting, and it was virtually impossible for someone to challenge the Democratic Party, which ran unopposed in most state elections for decades. By 1940, the voter registration provisions written into the 1895 constitution effectively limited African-American voters to 3,000—only 0.8 percent of those of voting ag
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
primaryTopic
South Carolina in the civil rights movement
Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina, African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black government during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, but with the 1876 inauguration of Governor Wade Hampton III, a Democrat who supported the disenfranchisement of blacks, African Americans in South Carolina struggled to exercise their rights. Poll taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation kept African Americans from voting, and it was virtually impossible for someone to challenge the Democratic Party, which ran unopposed in most state elections for decades. By 1940, the voter registration provisions written into the 1895 constitution effectively limited African-American voters to 3,000—only 0.8 percent of those of voting ag
has abstract
Prior to the civil rights move ...... uring the 1950s and the 1960s.
@en
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
Wikipage page ID
64,080,413
page length (characters) of wiki page
Wikipage revision ID
973,830,736
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
align
center
@en
causes
Racial segregation in schools and public accommodations
@en
partof
the Civil Rights Movement
@en
place
South Carolina, United States
@en
quote
"It shall be unlawful for any ...... rate facilities are furnished.
@en
result
*Judicial rulings
**Briggs v. ...... lina State Forestry Commission
@en
source
Code of Greenville, 1953, as amended in 1958, § 31-8
@en
title
South Carolina
@en
width
wikiPageUsesTemplate
subject
type
comment
Prior to the civil rights move ...... percent of those of voting ag
@en
label
South Carolina in the civil rights movement
@en