1. Segregation & Discrimination
Late 1800s- Early 1900s

2. Voting Discrimination
End of Reconstruction South…
Disenfranchisement:
Literacy tests
Poll taxes
Grandfather clauses

3. Segregation De facto segregation De jure segregation
Voluntary, tradition
Racism, segregation
Specific laws
“Jjim Crow Laws”
Black codes

5. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857

10. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

11. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954