The Jim Crow Era: Segregation and Discrimination

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The Jim Crow EraSegregation and Discrimination
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In The South

• Segregation through Jim Crow laws
• Limited freedoms for African-Americans
• Separation of races in public and private
  facilities
• Voting Restrictions
• Literacy test Must be able to pass a test to
  vote
• Poll tax Must pay a tax to vote
• Grandfather clause Exempt from those if your
  family voted before the war
• Physical Violence
• Ku Klux Klan
• Lynchings and Beatings

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Lynching in the South
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Plessy v. Ferguson

• African-American activists try to
  protest unfair state segregation laws
• 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case
• Established the idea of SEPARATE BUT EQUAL
• The Supreme Court said this did not violate the
  14th Amendment (which promised legal equality)
• Allowed segregation and Jim Crow laws in the
  South, as long as equal services were provided

"We, as freemen, still believe that we were right
and our cause is sacred."
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The North

• The Great Migration
• Blacks moved to Northern cities for better paying
  jobs and social equality
• Still faced racial discrimination
• Segregated neighborhoods
• Workplace discrimination

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RESPONSES OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS
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Ida B. Wells

• She led an anti-lynching crusade
• Called for the federal government to take action

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Booker T. Washington

• Founded Tuskegee Institute
• Gradual path to equality is through vocational
  education and economic success
• Criticized for
• accepting segregation

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W.E.B. Du Bois

• Demanded immediate political equality and civil
  rights for African-Americans
• Formed the National Association for the
  Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909
• Ph.D. from Harvard
• Founded the Niagara Movement
• to promote university education for
• African-Americans
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Assignment Use your notes, the video, and
pages 530-531 in your book.

• Compare and contrast the views of Booker T.
  Washington and W.E.B. du Bois in a Venn Diagram

Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. du Bois
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• Compare and contrast the views of Booker T.
  Washington and W.E.B. du Bois in a Venn Diagram

W.E.B. du Bois
Booker T. Washington