1. Discrimination Against African Americans
Chapter 20
Section 3
Discrimination Against African Americans
What new problems and opportunities developed as America became an industrial power?

2. Racism Causes Discrimination
Key ? – How did racism affect African Americans?
Racists beliefs inspired acts of violence.
Racist attitudes of African Americans since slavery.
After Reconstruction Southerners struck back.

3. Segregation and Jim Crow Laws
Restricted voting rights by setting up literacy (reading tests) and poll taxes to prevent AA voting.
Set up grandfather clauses.
Jim Crow laws – enforced segregation or separation of white and black in public places.

4. Violence Increases
Ku Klux Klan used terror and violence to keep AA from challenging Jim Crow laws.
1,500 lynchings without due process.
Ida B. Wells – AA journalist led fight against lynching.
Some AA moved north to escape discrimination.
Still had problems with housing and jobs.
Plessy v. Ferguson – Pg. 652

5. African Americans Organize
Key ? What two approaches did African-American leaders take in the face of segregation?
Booker T. Washington – founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
AA should learn trades, patience, enterprise, and thrift. Not challenge segregation. Atlanta Compromise.

6. W.E.B. Du Bois Sociology professor – disagreed with Washington.
Should fight segregation
Pushed for higher education. “Talented Tenth”. Teachers, ministers, and professionals who would lead the struggle for equal rights.
NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Du Bois, Jane Addams & other reformers started.