Juneteenth
What is Juneteenth short for and what year it happened?
June 19, 1865
Who created the Ku Klux Klan?
6 ex confederate soldiers
What is the purpose of Jim Crow laws?
To segregate black people from white people
What is the meaning of integrate?
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to bring people together into an equal participation in a social group or institution
Why is Juneteenth important? In other words, what does this day celebrate in detail?
What is the meaning behind the name Ku Klux Klan?
It came from the Greek word Kuklos, which means circle.
What is the meaning of segregation?
What court case demanded that schools be integrated?
Brown v.s. Board of Education
What is the first state that made Juneteenth a holiday?
Texas is the first state to make Juneteenth a holiday.
Who helped KKK reach its goals?
The state governments by passing laws that made sure black people did not have equal rights as white people.
Where did the name Jim Crow come from?
It came from a song that was performed on stage by a white man who painted himself in black face and showed black people as dumb and violent, which then became a stereotype for all black people during this time.
What year did schools become integrated?
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1954
What year did Juneteenth become a federal holiday?
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2021
What three groups besides black people did KKK target?
Catholics, Jewish people, and newly arriving immigrants
List 4 places that were segregated during Jim Crow era.
schools, parks, cemetery, prisons, restaurants, stores, etc.
What law put an end to Jim Crow laws and integrated all public places? What year was this law passed?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation declare specifically?
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It declared that all slaves in the confederate states were free.
What is the meaning of lynching?
To kill someone, usually by hanging, for a crime that others believed that they've committed. The lynching normally happened by a mob of people.
What's the difference between black codes and Jim Crow laws?
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black codes were trying to place black people back into slavery while Jim Crow laws wanted to separate black people from white people
How does segregation still exist today?
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It exists in the workplace, neighborhoods, schools, and friend groups