1. Instructions You have fifteen minutes to complete the quiz
When done with the quiz, return the quiz and answer form to me
Pick up “Race & Progressivism” handout
Optional: pick up Bonus Circle Map assignment – due Monday.

2. The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Turn of the Century
Race & Progressivism
The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Turn of the Century
c. Describe the rise of Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson, and the emergence of the NAACP.

3. Essential Question
What gains were made by those seeking racial equality for black Americans?

4. Racial Equality Timeline
– 13th Amendment
– 14th Amendment
– 15th Amendment
You’re not a slave, you’re a citizen, and you can vote
– Reconstruction ends
- 1880s – Emergence of Jim Crow in the South
> System of lawful racial segregation
– Plessy v Ferguson
> U.S.S.C. okays “separate but equal”

5. Leaders Booker T. Washington
Stressed need for education in trades, avoid agitating whites, earn their respect by proving worth
When blacks proved themselves useful, civil rights and social equality would soon follow
Known as accommodationism

6. Leaders
W.E.B. DuBois
Demanded suffrage, academic education, ending lynching, challenging Jim Crow
Saw Washington’s view promoting negro inferiority for minor, temporary gains

7. Racial Equality Timeline
– NAACP established
> Fight racism by challenging laws, demanding full rights of citizenship
Did it work?
Lynchings
whites blacks
whites blacks
whites blacks
whites blacks

8. Racial Equality Timeline
– NAACP established
> Fight racism by challenging laws, demanding full rights of citizenship
The NAACP will later be instrumental in the 40s & 50s in working towards racial equality

9. The needs of black Americans was met with indifference by Progressives
Race & Progressivism
The needs of black Americans was met with indifference by Progressives

10. EQ: What gains were made by those seeking racial equality for black Americans?
While Jim Crow and Plessy v Ferguson were detrimental to achieving racial equality, the establishment of the NAACP was an important step towards this goal that would not be realized for another half century.