Jim Crow, Black Codes
This character mocked black people. It was played by Thomas Rice, a white actor, in black face.
Who is Jim Crow?
Keeping groups of people separate based often on their race.
What is segregation?
This amendment gave freedom to all enslaved people.
13th Amendment
There were many groups who resorted to violence and intimidation to keep black men from voting. The largest hate group in the South was known as what?
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This HTHS principal announced his retirement this week.
Who is Mr. O'Brien?
Hotels, restaurants, drinking fountains, public restrooms are all examples of these.
What are public accommodations?
This term came to describe any racist law that restricted rights and opportunities of Black people.
What is Jim Crow?
This amendment gave all men, the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Citizens had to pay a fee ($$) in order to vote. This was one way that black men were kept from voting under Jim Crow. This was known as a:
What is a poll tax?
These two Black leaders resisted Jim Crow laws in their own ways. While they may not have agreed with one another, they both greatly impacted society.
Who are Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
These were laws passed in the South that limited the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This word sounds like it could be bad, but really means the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This amendment gave all people born or naturalized in the United States citizenship, equal protection under the law, and guaranteed due process.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Citizens had to pass reading and logic questions that the poll workers "graded." White people usually passed.
What are poll tests?
Under Jim Crow, a person was considered Black if they had one great grandparent, or were this fraction African American.
What is 1/8?
State and local governments passed laws intended to undermine, or weaken, the new rights that African Americans had gained in this part of the country.
What is the South?
The Supreme Court has to decide if a law is _______________ or not (whether or not the law follows our Constitution!)
What is Constitutional?
This was the phrase that made segregation legal. It said that segregation was ok, as long as both groups had access to their own.
What is "separate but equal?"
Only those who had grandfathers who could vote before the Civil War could vote in elections.
What is a Grandfather Clause?
This year's HTHS musical.
What is Newsies?
Under Black Codes in the South, white people and black people were not allowed to get married to one another. Marriage between a black person and a white person would be considered this:
What is interracial?
After Brown v. Board of Education said that "separate but equal" was not Constitutional, schools had to _____________, or allow students of all races attend school together.
What is integrate?
This is the Supreme Court case that started in a Louisiana train car, and said that "separate but equal" was legal. It was overturned with Brown v. Board of Education.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Only white people could vote in the primary party elections, so they decided who would be running in the regular election.
What is a white primary?
W.E.B. DuBois believed in the ____________, this idea that the top 10% of "exceptional black men" must get the highest education and degrees that they can in order to uplift all.
What is the Talented Tenth?