February 7, 2018 U.S. History Agenda: DO NOW: DBQ NOTES #37: How were the rights of African Americans denied during the Progressive Era? PROGRESSIVE ERA TEST TOMORROW

How were the rights of African Americans denied during the Progressive Era? Notes #37

Grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and poll taxes were devices used by the Southern states to deny African Americans the right to vote.

Jim Crow laws were passed by the Southern states to make racial segregation legal in public facilities and restrict the freedoms of African Americans.

In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was constitutional if “separate” facilities were “equal”. Homer Plessy

During the Progressive Era, civil rights activists such as Booker T During the Progressive Era, civil rights activists such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois worked to help African Americans gain racial equality. Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois

Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama Washington believed that African Americans should get a vocational education and earn their equality. Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama

Du Bois believed that African Americans should get a liberal education and demand their equality.

Speaker A: The [African American] demands equality – political equality, industrial equality, and social equality; and he is never going to be satisfied with anything less. Speaker B: Equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races is for the preservation of the public peace and good order. Speaker C: Vocational education will provide the means for African Americans to gain the civil liberties they deserve. Speaker D: The best answer for the equality of the [African American] lies in a return to his homeland in Africa.