1. Critical Thinking Journals
America’s History is filled with amazing heroics, people, and accomplishments. We learn about these things to inspire us and to grow an appreciation of our heritage
But America’s History is also filled with hatred, discrimination, and bigotry.
Why do we also need to learn about this?

2. Segregation and Discrimination
Unit 5

3. African Americans Fight Legal Discrimination
1877 Radical Republicans lost control in congress.
Voting restrictions
Literacy test
Poll tax
Grandfather clause
Jim Crow Laws
Government mandated laws that supported / institutionalized racism
Plessy v. Ferguson – established the doctrine “Separate but Equal”

4. Turn of the Century Race Relations
Informal belittling customs
Not allowed shake hands
Blacks tipping their hats
Yield sidewalk privileges to whites
Black Leaders
Booker T. Washington
conservative
W.E.B. Du Bois
liberal

6. Turn of the Century Race Relations
Punishment for breaking racial etiquette
Complaint to employer and loss of job
1885 – 1900: 2,500 African Americans were lynched, shot, or burned
“Many Blacks resisted the indignities of Jim Crow, and, far too often, they paid for their bravery with their lives.”
David Pilgram, PhD

7. Discrimination of other groups
Mexicans - In the southwest Mexican immigrants were hired to work on the railroad, agriculture, and mining because they could be forced to work for less money than others.
Chinese – continued discrimination – Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.