1. Segregation Ch 3 – Sec. 5

2. Rise of Segregation
After Reconstruction, most African Americans were sharecroppers
Conditions were hardly better than slavery
Many left for other jobs (Homesteads or cities)

3. Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
Organized a mass migration from the south to kansas
Newspapers called it a “Mass Exodus”
Migrants became known as “Exedusters”

4. 15th Amendment
Prohibited States from denying citizens to vote because of race or color
Didn’t mention anything about being literate or own property
Southern states imposed laws from loop holes in the 15th Amendment

5. Voting Implemented a poll tax of $2,
Tested them if they could read & understand the Constitution
Grandfather Clause = Can vote if your ancestor appeared on prior voting rolls
Avg. Wage $200-$400 yr (22c hr)

6. Legal Segregation
Laws were created to enforce segregation = Jim Crow Laws
1883, Supreme Ct. overturned “Civil Rights Act” of 1875 (Prohibited keeping people out of public places)
Could not ride on same bus, eat in same places, Hotels, theaters, railroads were free to do as they please

12. Homer Plessey
Challenged Louisiana law – forcing African Americans to ride in separate rail cars
Plessey v. Ferguson S.C. case
Supreme court upheld law – based ruling on “Separate but Equal”
As long as it is equal – it can be separate

13. African Americans Response
mobs carried out 187 lynching's per year
80% of lynching's occurred in the south
Strange Fruit Video:
Ida B Wells – activist against lynching, led crusade
Congress rejects anti lynching bill
Lynching's fell drastically due to social outcry

14. Influential People
Booker T. Washington – Pushed for Economic goals & not political goals
Atlanta Compromise -Wanted A.A. to concentrate on achieving economic goals rather than political ones
W.E.B. DuBois – wanted A.A. to demand civil rights especially right to vote
Felt right to vote only way to gain ground in civil rights

15. Civil Rights
In the years that followed, many African Americans fought for the right to vote and to end discrimination. This struggle would proved to be the beginning of a long battle that would cost many lives.