Unit I Oppression and the Fight for Rights in the Gilded and Progressive Eras

 Women had also been excluded from the ballot box  Movement began in the mid-1800s (Seneca Falls Convention)  Women fought for suffrage until the passage of the 19 th Amendment Women battle for ballots too…

 13 th -15 th amendments made big promises for African Americans  Started out great, even had representation in Congress  Due to fear, South starts passing disenfranchisement laws  Literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clause  African American influence quickly fades as Reconstruction ends Not looking so good…

 Voting wasn’t the only place discrimination was applied  Jim Crow (segregation) laws spread through the South after Reconstruction  Schools, parks, hospitals, transportation Jim Crow takes hold…

 Supreme Court upheld a challenge to a train car segregation law  Stated that as long as everything was SEPARATE but EQUAL, it was constitutional Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

 Fought against lynchings  Fought for women’s suffrage  Strong voice for justice Ida B. Wells – A Notable Woman

You be the judge…

1.Document A a.What type of document is this? b.Summarize the beliefs of Washington presented in this excerpt. 2.Document B a.What type of document is this? b.Summarize the beliefs of DuBois presented in this excerpt. 3.Document C a.What type of document is this? b.Summarize the message of EACH stanza (A-D) 4.Summarizing Information a.Make 2 columns – one for Washington and one for DuBois, choose the appropriate answers from the boxes, and write them in the correct column Read the excerpts and complete the following – AS A GROUP