Jim Crow Laws
Laws created in the South that required racial segregation between Black and white Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
A fee that citizens had to pay in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
The Supreme Court case in 1896 that upheld racial segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This violent act involved abducting and killing a person without a legal trial.
What is lynching?
This investigative journalist documented lynchings and fought for civil rights.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This term describes segregation that exists socially but is not written into law.
What is de facto segregation?
A test that required voters to read or interpret parts of the Constitution.
What is a literacy test?
The doctrine created by this case that allowed segregation.
What is “separate but equal”?
Most lynchings in the late 1800s occurred in this region of the United States.
What is the South?
The organization founded in 1909 to fight racial discrimination.
What is the NAACP?
im Crow laws forced separation in places like schools, transportation, and these everyday public spaces.
What are public facilities (restaurants, bathrooms, etc.)?
This rule allowed someone to vote if their grandfather had voting rights.
What is the grandfather clause?
This man who was 1/8 Black challenged segregation by sitting in a whites-only train car.
Who is Homer Plessy?
Many lynchings were carried out in public places like schools, churches, or this type of building where people gathered.
What is a town hall or public landmark?
This leader believed African Americans should first focus on economic progress and vocational education.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Jim Crow laws expanded greatly after this Supreme Court case supported “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Redeemers sometimes forced Black citizens to move before this time requirement was reached so they could not vote.
What is a residence requirement?
Plessy was ordered to move to this segregated train car after his ancestry was discovered.
What is the Black railroad car?
One of the largest crowds ever recorded watching a lynching—about 15,000 people—occurred in this Texas city.
What is Waco?
This civil rights leader argued for immediate political and legal equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The main goal of Jim Crow laws was to maintain this system of racial hierarchy.
What is white supremacy?
Arresting African Americans for minor or fake crimes prevented them from voting because of this legal status.
What is a criminal conviction?
This type of law spread throughout the South after the Plessy ruling.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Despite thousands of lynchings, this almost never happened to the attackers.
What is prosecution or punishment?
The disagreement between Washington and Du Bois centered on how quickly African Americans should pursue this goal.
What is civil rights or equality?