Answer to Question #261253 in History for charles

Question

How do you think the Jim Crow Era he was living in impacted his ideas?

Answer 1

The age he lived in had an impact on his thoughts because Jim Crow laws were imposed between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the mid-1950s, white southerners reasserted their power by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote. He resided with the redeemers, a group of southern Democrats who aspired to reinstate white supremacy in the South. "Home rule" was proposed in substitute of "bayonet rule."