Mrs. Baugh US History Pages , 964

Vocabulary  Disfranchising  Poll tax  Grandfather Clause  Segregation  Jim Crow Laws

Disfranchising African Americans  Disfranchising- to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.  15 th Amendment  Mississippi Poll tax Grandfather clause

Segregation  Segregation- separation North and South  Jim Crow Laws South  Civil Rights Act Supreme Court

Courts and Segregation  Civil Rights Act of 1875  Plessy v. Ferguson 1896  Brown v. Board of Education 1954

Plessy vs. Ferguson  Homer Plessy  Louisiana  “separate but equal”

Impact of Plessy Decision  Discrimination in the South African Americans’ progress halted  Violence towards African Americans  Not equal facilities  Military units segregated  NAACP

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