History of Racism
An 1896 Supreme Court case ruling that racial segregation laws were constitutional
Plessy v. Ferguson
Believed that the acquisition of Native American land by force was inevitable due to their inability to properly work the land
Theodore Roosevelt
African American journalist, co-founder of the NAACP, and women’s rights activist who brought attention to the lynchings of African Americans in the South
Ida B. Wells
Act of 1882 that restricted immigration to the United States of Chinese immigrants and prohibited their naturalization
Chinese Exclusion Act
The idea that certain races are more fit and capable of success using pseudo-science to support it
Social Darwinism
Legislations enacted by FDR following the Great Depression introducing government policies providing social welfare to American citizens
The New Deal
An era of racial violence in the South, leading to the intervention of Northern troops and the creation of the Freedman’s Bureau
Reconstruction
Irish immigrant and founder of the Workingmen’s Party in the late 1800s who made claims to whiteness by leading campaigns against the Chinese and advocating for Chinese exclusion
Denis Kearney
Characterized by its followers’ beliefs that certain individuals are not fit to procreate, based on factors such as race, ethnicity, physical and mental capacity
Eugenics Movement
War from 1846-1848 ending with the forced signing of a treaty and the acquisition of Western land of the North American continent
The Mexican-American War
A successful, yet flawed movement due to internal conflicts on the lines of race, with many wishing to deny the rights they strived for from African Americans
The Women's Suffrage Movement
Also known as the Johnson-Reed Act which prevented immigration from all of Asia, and created quotas on all countries setting the allowed number of immigrants allowing to enter the US from all of countries
Immigration Act of 1924
In 1919in response to the Great Migration, white supremacists terrorized Black Americans in racial riots and individual attacks resulting in hundreds of deaths
Red Summer
The Spanish American War, fought in 1898, lead to the acquisition and economic control over these four territories
Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and The Philippines
A mass migration of millions in the early 1900s following the first World War in their escape of racial violence and oppression
The Great Migration
Chinese American author who wrote on the hypocrisy and racism of anti-Chinese sentiment in the US in his work titles “The Chinese Must Stay” in the late 1800s
Yan Phou Lee
Two men of color who attempted to claim whiteness in the US court system in the early 1920s, and failed
Ozawa and Thind
The forced deportation of mainly American citizens, used as scapegoats for the Great Depression due to their race and ethnic background
Mexican Repatriation
As a result of the Great Migration, and influx in racial pride and expression in the art, leading to the creation of Jazz music
The Harlem Renaissance
Photographer in the late 19th early 20th century who captured the conditions of immigrants in the US, such as poverty and child labor
Jacob Riis