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2 After the Civil War…  In the years right after the Civil War, freedmen (former slaves) were able to vote and participate in government, thanks to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments  However…..

3 After the Civil War  The federal government had been protecting these rights, but in 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes became president and ended Reconstruction.  All of a sudden, there was no one to enforce the new laws and amendments and no authority to punish those who treated blacks unfairly.  From then on, people worked to undermine efforts at equality, and states passed laws that greatly restricted the rights and freedoms of blacks living in the South (and the North!).

4 Segregation  By the 1870s, most southern states adopted laws known as Black Codes (JIM CROW LAWS) creating a legal form of segregation. Segregation is when people are separated by race.  These codes limited the rights and freedoms of black people. Northern states varied in the way they accepted the new arrivals, but segregation was common all over the nation.

5 Segregation and the Right to Vote  One of the main rights that was taken away from blacks in the South by loopholes in the nation’s laws was the right to vote.  (15 th amendment)

6 No Vote?  Some of the ways that southern states would deny African Americans their right to vote was to: Have a poll tax Have a poll test Have a grandfather clause Have a white primary

7 Rise of Jim Crow  Segregation in the South was enforced by laws designed to prevent African Americans from exercising their equal rights which were known as “Jim Crow” laws.

8 Legalization of segregation  The Supreme Court case that legalized segregation was the case of “Plessy vs. Ferguson”.  Plessy v. Ferguson was the Supreme Court case that legalized segregation and established the principle of “separate but equal”.

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12 Rise of change  The African American, who believed the way to stop discrimination was for African American’s to concentrate on economic goals rather that political goals was Booker T. Washington.  He wanted to strengthen the race from the inside  He believed economic security would lead to greater civil rights and better race relations.  Started the Tuskegee Institute

13 Rise of Change  Believed that the only way Blacks would achieve full equality was to get a good education was W.E.B DuBois.  He believed that the only way black Americans could gain civil rights was through protest and activism.  He disagreed with Washington’s desire to earn respect of whites first and hope that rights would follow.

14 NAACP  The organization created in 1909 that worked to improve living conditions for African Americans was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, better known as the NAACP.  Founded by W.E.B Du Bois


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