Segregation and Discrimination

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Segregation and Discrimination

• Section 163
• pp. 492-495

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Preview Questions

• How were African Americans kept from voting?
• How did social customs restrict African
  Americans?
• What other groups faced discrimination in America?

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I. Fight Against Discrimination

• Voting Restrictions
• Literacy Tests
• Poll Taxes
• Grandfather Clause

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I. Fight Against Discrimination

• Public Segregation
• Jim Crow Laws
• Plessy v. Ferguson

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II. Race Relations

• African Americans restricted by customs
• Addressing whites as Mr. or Sir
• Lived in segregated neighborhoods
• Discrimination in the workplace

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III. Expanding Higher Education

• African American Higher Education
• Booker T. Washington
• Founded Tuskegee Institute
• Education would end racism

Washington argued the Black people should
temporarily forego "political power, insistence
on civil rights, and higher education of Negro
youth. They should concentrate all their energies
on industrial education."
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III. Expanding Higher Education

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Favored a liberal arts education

"history cannot ignore W.E.B. DuBois because
history has to reflect truth and Dr. DuBois was a
tireless explorer and a gifted discoverer of
social truths. His singular greatness lay in his
quest for truth about his own people. There were
very few scholars who concerned themselves with
honest study of the black man and he sought to
fill this immense void. The degree to which he
succeeded disclosed the great dimensions of the
man. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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IV. Race Relations

• Booker T. Washington
• Dont insist on full equality
• Gain economic power
• Teach useful skills
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Demand legal equality
• Niagra Movement
• Seek higher education

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IV. Race Relations

• Ida B. Wells
• Anti-lynching campaign