User:Sdjo1

Hi My name is Joi. I am very interested in South Carolina and North Carolina History. Some routes may take me north to Virginia or Massachusetts because of the Great Migration.the The Great Migration was after the Compromise of 1877 which was when the North made a deal with the South post civil war that the South would no longer be monitered by Northern Federal Troops to uphold the law and do right by the recently freed black Americans. The requirements to join the Union were often thrown away and disregarded. For example in my home state, South Carolina there were 2 state Constitutions. The SC Constitutional Convention of 1868 was required to join the union. The SC Constitutional Congress at the time was 70% black and accurately represented the population. It included public school for both black and white people more liberties for people of all genders and races.

HOWEVER, in 1895 a new Constitution that is still enforced today rolled back liberties and stomped on the progress made by the 1868 constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_South_Carolina#Changes_made_in_the_1895_Constitution

""Before the 1895 Constitution, voter registration limits were lower; voting was open to all males of 21 years. In the 1895 Constitution, the focus of voter registration became one of "intelligence" instead of "personhood." Individuals would, until January 1, 1898, have to be able to answer questions about any constitutional provision asked in order to qualify as a voter. Thereafter, the registration process included a test of reading and writing; individuals with at least $20 in property were also permitted to vote.[3] The change from the 1868 constitution's "personhood" to the 1895 constitution's "intelligence" was due to the 1895 constitution's framers' desire to disenfranchise African Americans in order to bar them from participation in the political process. According to the state's Democratic Party-leaning newspapers, the motivations behind changing the constitution were clear:"

"We can trust white men to do right by the inferior race, but we cannot trust the inferior race with power over the white man."

— Charleston News and Courier, [4]The Great Migration was a time where black Americans fled the Southern United States in the wake of The Red Summer of 1919 and constant terrorism and inability to attain fair work and self-determination in a land where their former slave owners were not taxing them without fair representation""