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Race RelationsRace Relations
Civil Rights and Civil Rights and African AmericansAfrican Americans
Why did African Why did African Americans seek Americans seek
reform?reform?
#1 Voting Discrimination#1 Voting Discrimination• Poll tax: pay to votePoll tax: pay to vote
• Literacy Literacy Test: prove Test: prove
you can read you can read to voteto vote
Voting Voting DiscriminationDiscrimination
Voting DiscriminationVoting Discrimination• Grandfather clauseGrandfather clause
- designed for white voters - designed for white voters to avoid poll tax and literacy to avoid poll tax and literacy test test
- can vote if father or - can vote if father or grandfather could before 1867grandfather could before 1867
• Supreme Court 1896Supreme Court 1896
• Legalized segregationLegalized segregation
• ““separate but equal” separate but equal” does not violate 14does not violate 14thth amendmentamendment
#2 #2 Plessy V. Plessy V. FergusonFerguson
Five Forks Elementary School for
blacks. Front view. Built in 1918, served
grades 1-5, pupil capacity of 60.
No indoor plumbing and no steam/hot water
heat.
A typical southern classroom of the early
1900s, barefoot children work under the supervision
of a single teacher, who taught all subjects, ages,
and grades
African American school, Halifax County
South Boston
Elementary school for whites, Halifax County South Boston
Worsham High School and Elementary School for whites. Side
view looking east. Built in 1928, served grades 1-12, pupil capacity of 300, had
indoor plumbing and either steam or hot water heat.
#3 Jim Crow Laws#3 Jim Crow Laws• Black Codes that Enforced Black Codes that Enforced
segregationsegregation
#4 Lynching#4 Lynching• Lynching: murder without a Lynching: murder without a
trialtrial
• Between 1882-1892: 900 African Between 1882-1892: 900 African Americans were lynchedAmericans were lynched
Lynchings Lynchings were meant were meant to scare and to scare and intimidate intimidate
What could be done to What could be done to fight this system?fight this system?
Who led the movement to Who led the movement to improve conditions for improve conditions for
African Americans?African Americans?
Early Civil Rights LeadersEarly Civil Rights LeadersBooker T. Booker T.
WashingtonWashingtonW.E.B.W.E.B.DuBoisDuBois Marcus GarveyMarcus Garvey
Questions?Questions?