Objective 7 03 Evaluate the effects of racial
Objective 7. 03 Evaluate the effects of racial segregation on different regions and segments of the US society.
Disenfranchisement • To deny a person their right to vote
Literacy Tests • Testing a person’s literacy to determine their eligibility to vote, meant to disenfranchise black voters
Poll Taxes • A tax to determine a person’s eligibility to vote meant to disenfranchise black voters
Grandfather Clause • A person’s eligibility to vote is determined by whether their grandfather could vote meant to disenfranchise black voters
Plessey vs. Ferguson • Court Case that established the doctrine of “separate but equal”
Booker T. Washington • African American educator; everyone’s money is green, African Americans should seek equality through vocational training and employment
Atlanta Compromise Speech • Speech by Booker T. Washington asking African Americans to go to work and Southern Whites to hire them
WEB Dubois • African American Educator, 1 st African American to graduate from Harvard, African American should seek Academic education and demand immediate equal rights including the right to vote
NAACP • Organization started by WEB Dubois and other African Americans for equal rights, established by leaders of the Niagara Movement
Niagara Movement • Meeting of leading African Americans to discuss the movement for equal rights for African Americans at Niagara Falls
Ida Wells Barnett • She was a teacher, editor of local newspaper, fought against lynching
Lynching • Killing or torturing someone because of their race, beliefs
Great Migration • Movement of African Americans from the South to the North before, during and after WWI
SFI • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) • Wilmington race riot (1898) • Booker T. Washington • Tuskegee Institute • Atlanta Compromise Speech • W. E. B. Du Bois • Niagara Movement • The NAACP • The Crisis • Ida B. Wells Barnett • Lynching • Great Migration • Disenfranchisement • Literacy test • Poll taxes • Grandfather clauses • De jure segregation • De facto segregation • Jim Crow Laws Quiz Concepts: • Conflict • Power • Leadership • Equality • Reform Choose 5 of the SFI and tell how each relates to 1 of the Concepts.
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