1. Segregation and Discrimination

2. What are we studying today?

3. What is a Jim Crow Law?

4. A PERSONAL VOICE IDA B. WELLS
“ Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Lee Stewart had been lynched in Memphis [where] no lynching had taken place before.
. . . This is what opened my eyes to what lynching really was. An excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized ”
—quoted in Crusade for Justice

5. What does Ida Wells see as the real reason lynching takes place?

6. Why is it that Southern States limit voting but not Northern States?

7. What is a poll tax?

8. Why couldn’t Blacks use the Grandfather clause?

9. Where does the name Jim Crow come from?

10. How was racial segregation put into effect?

11. Why was Plessy v. Ferguson so important (in a negative sense)?

12. Why did ‘separate but equal’ not work?

13. A PERSONAL VOICE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
“ To those of the white race I would repeat what I say to my own race Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth 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 progress.”
—Atlanta Exposition address, 1895

14. Why do opponents of Booker T. Washington
have problems with this phrase?

15. What were some of the unofficial rules African Americans had to face?

16. What could be the consequences of not following the unofficial etiquette?

17. What are some of the ways there was also discrimination in the North?

18. Why particularly was there issues between immigrants and African Americans?

19. Why did railroads particularly use Mexicans to build their railroads?

20. Why does debt peonage occur?

21. Why are Chinese forced to live in segregated areas?

22. How does racial discrimination affect the Chinese?