State politics, railroads and civil rights in South Carolina, 1883-1889
State politics, railroads and civil rights in South Carolina, 1883-1889
In 1889 the General Assembly of South Carolina repealed the state's Civil Rights Act (1870), following a protracted debate that had been prompted by the United States Supreme Court's decision in the Civil Rights Cases (1883). This article examines in detail the contours of the civil rights controversy in South Carolina and, in doing so, identifies a number of competing dynamics, among them outside corporate interests (in this case, railroads), local state interests, and regional loyalties. Taken together, these different factors demonstrate conclusively that civil rights in South Carolina during the 1880s was a contested space. They also shed important new light on the development of de jure segregation in the South and, in particular, the complex relationship between Jim Crow legislation and the social and economic issues related to railroad expansion.
71-91
Oldfield, J.R.
c5b43d66-5f3d-4b91-b5c2-08959b412e40
July 2004
Oldfield, J.R.
c5b43d66-5f3d-4b91-b5c2-08959b412e40
Oldfield, J.R.
(2004)
State politics, railroads and civil rights in South Carolina, 1883-1889.
American Nineteenth Century History, 5 (2), .
(doi:10.1080/1466465042000257864).
Abstract
In 1889 the General Assembly of South Carolina repealed the state's Civil Rights Act (1870), following a protracted debate that had been prompted by the United States Supreme Court's decision in the Civil Rights Cases (1883). This article examines in detail the contours of the civil rights controversy in South Carolina and, in doing so, identifies a number of competing dynamics, among them outside corporate interests (in this case, railroads), local state interests, and regional loyalties. Taken together, these different factors demonstrate conclusively that civil rights in South Carolina during the 1880s was a contested space. They also shed important new light on the development of de jure segregation in the South and, in particular, the complex relationship between Jim Crow legislation and the social and economic issues related to railroad expansion.
This record has no associated files available for download.
More information
Published date: July 2004
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 12247
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/12247
ISSN: 1466-4658
PURE UUID: f0e729b3-eb9a-4bca-8beb-a1b16b34ffce
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 27 Sep 2005
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 05:04
Export record
Altmetrics
Contributors
Author:
J.R. Oldfield
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics