Jim Crow Separate But Equal
What were the Jim Crow laws?
legalized segregation between blacks and whites.
What happened after the civil war?
lives of southern freed men and women began to improve.
How were you considered back at the time?
one great grandparent who was black (1/8 African heritage)
- Booker T. Washington
one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- Rutherford B. Hayes
19th President of the United States
- Octoroon
A person who is one-eighth black by descent
- Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist early leader in the Civil Rights Movement
What was the NAACP?
Biracial organization to advance justice for African Americans
- Lynching:
Death from illegal hanging
Who was Homer Plessy and why did he go to court?
He was a white man who was 1 eighth black, he went to court for civil disobedience
- Superior
Higher in rank, status, or quality
- W.E.B. Du Bois
In 1895, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
- Inferior
Lower in rank, status, or quality
- Prejudice
Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
What was the impact of the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling?
Segregation became law and so there was the Jim Crow laws that discriminated against the blacks.
What were the varying ways that Southern States disenfranchised African Americans?
Take a literacy test, property tests and Grandfather clauses
What was the Supreme Court Ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson court case?
The Supreme Court ruling was separate but equal.
- Integration
The action or process of integrating
Segregation
The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others
- Miscegenation
The interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial types
Who was Jim Crow?
a fictional comedy character that later came to represent black people
- Disenfranchising
deprive (someone) of the right to vote