Describe the conditions of blacks in the South during the late nineteenth century and discuss how ...

Answer: The late nineteenth century represented a low point in the conditions of black existence in the American South. Southern whites passed a series of laws segregating blacks and restricting their political and civil rights. Blacks remained economically dependent on whites. Black leaders responded in several ways. Some, such as Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington believed that blacks could eventually achieve equality with whites. Others believed that could never happen and advised abandoning the United States.