Critical Thinking Journals America’s History is filled with amazing heroics, people, and accomplishments. We learn about these things to inspire us and to grow an appreciation of our heritage But America’s History is also filled with hatred, discrimination, and bigotry. Why do we also need to learn about this?

Segregation and Discrimination Unit 5

African Americans Fight Legal Discrimination 1877 Radical Republicans lost control in congress. Voting restrictions Literacy test Poll tax Grandfather clause Jim Crow Laws Government mandated laws that supported / institutionalized racism Plessy v. Ferguson – established the doctrine “Separate but Equal”

Turn of the Century Race Relations Informal belittling customs Not allowed shake hands Blacks tipping their hats Yield sidewalk privileges to whites Black Leaders Booker T. Washington conservative W.E.B. Du Bois liberal

Turn of the Century Race Relations Punishment for breaking racial etiquette Complaint to employer and loss of job 1885 – 1900: 2,500 African Americans were lynched, shot, or burned “Many Blacks resisted the indignities of Jim Crow, and, far too often, they paid for their bravery with their lives.” David Pilgram, PhD

Discrimination of other groups Mexicans - In the southwest Mexican immigrants were hired to work on the railroad, agriculture, and mining because they could be forced to work for less money than others. Chinese – continued discrimination – Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.