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1865Civil War ends Reconstruction
begins
1870sReconstruction
ends. 15th Amendment
1950s-1960sCivil Rights
movement begins.
1900s-1940s Jim Crow laws prevent African
Americans from voting
Plessy vs Ferguson effected social equality for Black Americans
from 1896 to 1960’s
African American Vote After Slavery
Plessy vs. Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896Ferguson, 1896
Supreme Court Supreme Court legalized segregation legalized segregation
throughout the throughout the nation.nation.
•““Separate but Separate but Equal” Equal” as long as as long as public facilities public facilities
were equalwere equal
•Problem: Problem: Black Black facilities never facilities never equal to White equal to White
facilitiesfacilities
US would be
segregated until the 1960’s.
Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896
Booker T. Booker T. WashingtonWashington
How do Black Americans overcome segregation?
Southern Perspective
W.E.B. DuboisHow do Black Americans overcome
segregation?Northern Perspective
• Fought for immediate Black equality in society
• Talented 10%: Demanded the top 10% of the talented Black population be placed into the “power positions”
• Gain equality by breaking into power structure
• Founder of NAACP National Association for the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored PeopleAdvancement of Colored People
W.E.B. DuboisHow do Black Americans overcome
segregation?Northern Perspective
• Fought for immediate Black equality in society
• Talented 10%: Demanded the top 10% of the talented Black population be placed into the “power positions”
• Gain equality by breaking into power structure
• Founder of NAACP National Association for the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored PeopleAdvancement of Colored People
Improving Conditions for Improving Conditions for African AmericansAfrican Americans
Anti-Lynching – Ida B. Wells –Free Speech.
According to the Tuskegee Institute,
4,742 lynchings
occurred between 1882-1968.
0 to 2020 to 6060 to 100100 to 200200 or more
Lynchings of Whites/Blacks
For which crime was someone For which crime was someone lynched?lynched?
For illegal crimes, such as murder, rape, or theft
But also, people were lynched for insulting a white person, buying a car…
Or even, especially if it was a black lynching, for no crime at all. Just to remind blacks to stay in their place.
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