Jim Crow
This 1896 Supreme Court case created the “separate but equal” rule, allowing racial segregation to continue in the United States.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This law said you could vote only if your grandfather had been able to vote before 1867–keeping most African Americans from voting.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
This term means to put someone to death by mob action, often by hanging, without legal trial.
What is lynching?
This organization, founded in 1909, worked to protect the rights of African Americans and still exists today.
What is the NAACP?
The state and local laws enforced racial segregation in schools, transportation, and public places after the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
This rule required citizens to pay money before they could vote, which prevented many poor African Americans and white farmers from voting.
What is the Poll Tax?
This African American journalist and activist led a national campaign to expose the horror of lunching in the United States.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This leader believed African Americans should focus on education and economic progress first before demanding civil rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
In Plessy v. Ferguson, this man as arrested for sitting in a “whites only” train car and refusing to move.
Who is Homer Plessy?
Both the poll tax and grandfather clauses were designed to get around this amendment, which gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Ida B. Wells showed that most lynchings we’re acts of racial terror meant to reinforce this system of social control and white dominance.
What is white supermacy?
This civi rights leader geode fund the NAACP and believed African Americans should fight imediebty for full political and social equality.
Who is W.E.B DuBois?