The Making of Jim Crow
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mickus96 on October 18, 2011
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african-american history since emancipation
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Disenfranchisment | take away the right to vote |
| poll tax | a tax a person is required to pay before he or she is allowed to vote. Poll taxes were used in many southern states after the Reconstruction period to restrict African-American citizens' right to vote. |
| literacy test | a method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level |
| grandfather clause | Said that a citizen could vote only if his grandfather had been able to vote. At the time, the grandfathers of black men in the South had been slaves with no right to vote. Another method for disenfranchising blacks. |
| plessy V. fergeson | The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy--who was seven-eighths Caucasian--took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. |
| Seperate But Equal | the judicial precedent established by in the Plessy v Ferguson decision that enabled states to interpret the equal protection provision of the fourteenth amendment as a means of establishing segregation |
| Jim Crow | The system of racial segregation in the South that was created in the late nineteenth century following the end of slavery. Jim Crow laws written in the 1880s and 1890s mandated segregation in public facilities. |
| Ida B. Wells | This person protested against lynching and spoke out in the newspaper Free Speech, asking the federal government for an anti-lynching law. |
| 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." |
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