at a Boston Meeting". A group of wealthy young white men from New Orleans had formed the Green Turtles the previous year. This group required an "oath of allegiance to white supremacy and the Democratic Party." Because of this group's subsequent threats on Jewett's life, she would not travel further South than Richmond, Virginia. After the Robert Charles riots, whites intensified and increased the reach of racial segregation in the state. In 1908 the state legislature passed a miscegenation law, prohibiting interracial marriage or domestic partnerships. These were seldom enforced in cases of white men having relations with black women. Such legislation at the time was associated with the progressive movement, and was also influenced by European ideas on eugenics. Many states passed miscegenation laws in those years. In 1920, New Orleans established racial segregation in jails. The Catholic Church established a segregated parish in downtown New Orleans, the Congregation of Corpus Christi. Racial violence and hate crimes increased in frequency. New Orleans jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton recounted the 1900 riot in his 1938 oral history recorded for the Library of Congress. Lynchings were still high at the turn of the century, reflecting white efforts to suppress black voting and maintain white supremacy. The agricultural economy was not doing well, adding to economic and social tensions. See also List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States Citations References William R. Merriam. "Twelfth Census of the United States" (1900) Pp. 725 William Ivy Hair. Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900, Louisiana State University Press (1976) Further reading Ida B. Wells-Barnett Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death. (1900) Project Gutenberg. Michael McGerr. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America (2003) Oxford University Press. Robert P. Robertson. The Tragedy of Robert Charles (2009), Booksurge Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), partial preview online External links L'abeille de la Nouvelle-Orleans - Jul 25, 1900, in French, showing portraits of officers Day and Lamb, and of Charles 1900 riots 1900 in Louisiana Mass murder in 1900 African-American history in New Orleans Riots and civil disorder in Louisiana Racially motivated violence against African Americans Racially motivated violence in the United States White American riots in the United States Mass murder