1. 6:5 ● Attempts to unify Whites and African Americans fail (in South) ● “poll tax”: charge $2 to vote ● Literacy tests ● Jim Crow Laws ● Laws passed in the South to discriminate against African Americans

2. 6:5 ● Segregation: separation of races ● Plessy v Ferguson (1892) ● Supreme Court legalized segregation

3. 6:5 ● Lynching ● Hanging without a proper court preceding

4. 6:5 ● The African American Response ● Ida Wells – Anti-lynching crusade ● Mary Church Terrell – Co-founded of the NAACP – Led a boycott against department stores in D.C. That refused to serve African Americans

5. 6:5 ● Booker T. Washington ● Focus on first achieving economic equality, not political equality ● “The Atlanta Compromise”

6. 6:5 ● W.E.B. Du Bois ● Strongly disagreed with B.T. Washington ● Voting = personhood