WHAT TO STUDY Constitution Principles Activity Unit Vocabulary Gilded Age notes (including Plessy v. Ferguson) Corruption Worksheet Gilded Age Gallery Walk Chapters 3 and 4 Unit Booklet

Turn of the Century Race Relations Who are these two people? Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois What’s the difference between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?

Use pp. 171-173

Supreme Court Case Analysis Plessy v Ferguson Use pp. 171-172 Chief Justice Plaintiff (person filing suit) and argument (including details) Defendant (person answering suit) and argument Court ruling and their legal reasoning: Historical impact/ why it matters:

Supreme Court Case Analysis Plessy v Ferguson (1896) Melville Fuller Plaintiff Homer Plessy Louisiana Acts, 1890, No. 111- law used to convict Plessy Argued that his conviction for sitting in the whites-only section of a train car violated his 14th amendment rights. Defendant State of Louisiana Separate facilities alone could not be called unequal The court ruling (decision) Separate-but-equal facilities for blacks and whites did not violate the Constitution. Made segregation of races legal at the national level; states pass more Jim Crow laws.

Why It Matters To You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEkQsOsmC88

PROCESS ACTIVITY How do you think Booker T. Washington would have responded to the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson? How do you think W.E.B. Du Bois would have responded? Write a tweet from each to sum up their view of the decision. Be prepared to share it with the class. How about Ida B. Wells?

Paired Debate Are you Washington or Du Bois? Washington: “ In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual (shared) progress.” DuBois: “We refuse to surrender…leadership..to cowards and trucklers. We are men; we will be treated as men.”