Jim Crow Separate But Equal

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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


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