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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.75,0:00:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even after African Americans begin \Nto be a part of the political process,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.30,0:00:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the state legislators of the south \Npassed more and more and more
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.40,0:00:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,restrictive measures which \Nwere effectively designed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.29,0:00:16.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to criminalize Black life.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.35,0:00:20.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make it impossible for any \NAfrican American man
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.55,0:00:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who didn't live under the explicit\Nprotection of some white landowner
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.07,0:00:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to not be in violation of \Nsome law at almost all times.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.91,0:00:33.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the kinds of things we're talking\Nabout are absurd to modern ears
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.74,0:00:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it was a crime in the south for a \Nfarm worker to walk beside a railroad.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.30,0:00:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a crime in the south to speak\Nloudly in the company of white women.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.88,0:00:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a crime to sell the products \Nof your farm after dark
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.38,0:00:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost anywhere in the south.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.40,0:00:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were reasons, there were sort of\Nodd logics behind almost all of these
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.36,0:01:01.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost all of these laws and\Nnone of them said that they
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.31,0:01:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,applied excursively to African Americans\Nbut overwhelmingly they were
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.90,0:01:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only ever enforced against \NAfrican Americans because
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.48,0:01:14.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the explicit intent, and when I say\Nthe intent was explicit, it was.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.17,0:01:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the constitutional convention \Nof Alabama in 1901 when
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.54,0:01:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a new constitution was passed\Nwhich effectively ended all Black
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.56,0:01:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,participation in political life \Nand public life in Alabama,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.79,0:01:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the discussions around the drafting\Nof these laws were very open
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.02,0:01:34.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the intention of to make it\Nimpossible for Black men
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.57,0:01:38.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to participate in mainstream \NAmerica life in any meaningful way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.36,0:01:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the most powerful,\Nthe most damaging
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.86,0:01:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all of these laws were \Nthe vagrancy statutes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.42,0:01:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where in every southern state, \Nit became a crime, or you became
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.84,0:01:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a criminal if you could not prove at any \Ngiven moment that you were employed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.49,0:01:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What white southerners then discovered \Nwas that this was also an extraordinarily
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.30,0:02:02.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,effective way of intimidating \NAfrican Americans away from
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.85,0:02:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the new civil rights they'd obtained\Nas a result of the 13th amendment
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.10,0:02:08.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the end of the Civil War.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.97,0:02:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These laws passed to force them \Nback into labor also intimidated them
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.10,0:02:15.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,away from the political process\Nor could be used to intimidate them
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.94,0:02:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,away from the political process.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.73,0:02:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so by the end of the 19th century,\Non the basis of these two strategies
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.42,0:02:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of white southerners, enormous populations\Nof African Americans had been returned to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.71,0:02:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a state of de facto slavery and \Nhad been effectively pushed
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.17,0:02:36.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,completely, entirely out of the \Npolitical process and they
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.25,0:02:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would not return for six decades.