Transcript 6:5 - Eastern Upper Peninsula ISD

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Attempts to unify Whites and African Americans
fail (in South)
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“poll tax”: charge $2 to vote
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Literacy tests
Jim Crow Laws
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Laws passed in the South to discriminate against
African Americans
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Segregation: separation of races
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Plessy v Ferguson (1892)
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Supreme Court legalized segregation
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Lynching
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Hanging without a proper court preceding
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The African American Response
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Ida Wells
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Anti-lynching crusade
Mary Church Terrell
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Co-founded of the NAACP
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Led a boycott against department stores in D.C. That
refused to serve African Americans
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Booker T. Washington
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Focus on first achieving economic equality, not
political equality
“The Atlanta Compromise”
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Strongly disagreed with B.T. Washington
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Voting = personhood