Jim Crow
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 disfranchisement | To deprive of a privilege, an immunity, or a right of citizenship, especially the right to vote |
| Jim Crow | Laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government |
| poll tax | a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote |
| literacy test | A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote |
| grandfather clause | A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867. |
| lynching | the illegal execution of an accused person by mob action, without due process of law. |
| Ida B. Wells | African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores |
| Booker T. Washington | Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery." |
| Atlanta Compromise speech | Speech by Booker T. Washington that encouraged African Americans to on achieving economic independence. (he preached evolution and integrating) |
| W.E.B. DuBois | 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 |
| Plessy v Ferguson | sumpreme court ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal as long as the facilites were equal |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans, got Supreme Court to declare grandfather clause unconstitutional |
| Great Migration | movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 |
| Rosewood | Town burned down in Florida by whites killing black men and women. |
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