l with the grandfather clause. This clause stated that your grandfather had to be a registered voter in 1960 in order for you to vote.The Jim Crow Policy caused an awful strain on the freed slaves. It forced a lot of them to sharecrop and live in debt for the rest of their lives. Still others had no choice but to head west and become cowboys. It even forces some freed slaves to ask for their old owners for jobs. Even if they got their slave labor jobs back, they got paid next to nothing and in some cases had to go back leaving in slave houses.Many people ask why didnt the freed slaves fight back. The main reason was racism. It doesnt sound like that big of a deal now of days, but try to put yourself in the Deep South back in the 1880s. You had to deal with segregation and even if you wanted to change congress you had no political power to do so. You were not even allowed to vote. Throwing that aside you also had to deal with the Ku Klux Klan. A black hating group of white males whom would stop at nothing to terrorize the freed slaves into leaving.In this paper I explained the two components of the Jim Crow Policy, its effect on the freed slaves, and why they didnt fight back against this policy. The Jim Crow Policy has been long gone for many years now, but I think it is important to remember what I believe is one of Americas darkest days....
