1. 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

2. 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?

3. Use pp

4. Supreme Court Case Analysis
Plessy v Ferguson
Use pp
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:

5. Supreme Court Case Analysis
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
Melville Fuller
Plaintiff
Homer Plessy
Louisiana Acts, 1890, No 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.

6. Why It Matters To You

7. 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?

8. 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.”