Jim Crow
Segregation laws created by Southern states
Jim Crow Laws
Migration of African Americans to northern cities increased racial tensions, which led to violence in many cities. What is the racial violence called
Race riots
The idea that the top percentage of the Black race should lead in politics, economics, and other areas that would help accelerate the race as a whole.
The Talented Tenth
A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote
Literacy test
What is the goal of the NAACP?
To overturn as many unfair laws as possible; to change segregation by changing the laws
3 Examples of disenfranchisement
Grandfather clause, poll taxes, literacy test
Began when a black teenager was downed after swimming to close to a "whites Only" section.
Chicago Race Riot of 1919
1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, Opposed Booker T. Washington.
W.E.B. DuBois
Fee someone would pay to vote
Poll tax
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The practice of depriving someone of the right to vote
Disenfranchisement
Used to describe the bloody race riots that occurred during the summer and autumn of 1919.
Red Summer 1919
An 1895 address by Booker T. Washington that urged whites and African Americans to work together for the progress of all
Atlanta Compromise
What is the name of the Supreme Court case that led to the legalization of segregation
Plessy vs Ferguson
White supremacy teroritst organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What was the purpose of the Grandfather clause?
To prevent Black men from voting while allowing poor whites to vote
This event is caused when local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by black males on white females; white mobs will then attack Blacks across the city for days
Atlanta Race Riot 1906
African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality.
Booker T. Washington
Movement of African Americans to Northern cities during WWI
Great Migration
Separate but equal
What Supreme Court Case will overturn the segregation of public schools?
Brown vs Board of Education
A false accusation of rape of a white woman led to the destruction and burning of 35 blocks in 1921. One of the worst race riots in history
Tulsa Riots 1921 or destruction of Black Wall Street
Booker T. Washington believed that voting rights ___________________
While W.E.B. Dubois believed that voting rights __________
would come eventually/gradually
immediately
A discriminatory real estate practice in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods.
Redlining
What is the ruling in U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876)?
The national government could not punish someone for violating the civil rights of individuals