Segregation & Discrimination Late 1800s- Early 1900s
Voting Discrimination End of Reconstruction South… Disenfranchisement: Literacy tests Poll taxes Grandfather clauses
Segregation De facto segregation De jure segregation Voluntary, tradition Racism, segregation Specific laws “Jjim Crow Laws” Black codes
Race Relations Racial etiquette Lynching (illegal execution w/out a trial) Ida B. Wells- crusader against racial violence Northern Cities Urbanization led to a more diverse population
Booker T. Washington Founded the Tuskegee Institute Gradual improvement was the goal Economic equality first Atlanta Compromise Proposed that blacks and white could remain separate socially, but could cooperate on economic issues
W.E.B. DuBois Harvard educated, doctorate Demanded full equal rights Emphasized education as key to attaining equal rights Niagara Falls Convention 1905, advocated abolition of caste discrimination NAACP- 1909, National Association Advancement for Colored People
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954