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Denial of African American Rights in the Progressive Era

Explore how African Americans were denied their rights through mechanisms such as grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and Jim Crow laws. Civil rights activists Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois fought for racial equality through different approaches. Examining the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the contrasting ideologies of Washington and Du Bois sheds light on this pivotal era.

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Denial of African American Rights in the Progressive Era

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  1. February 6, 2019 U.S. History Agenda: DO NOW: DBQ NOTES #37: How were the rights of African Americans denied during the Progressive Era? PROGRESSIVE ERA TEST TOMORROW NOTES-CHECK #s 31–35 YESTERDAY

  2. How were the rights of African Americans denied during the Progressive Era? Notes #37

  3. Grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and poll taxes were devices used by Southern states to deny African Americans the right to vote.

  4. Jim Crow laws were passed by Southern states to make racial segregation legal in public facilities and restrict the freedoms of African Americans.

  5. In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was constitutional if separate public facilities were equal. Homer Plessy

  6. During the Progressive Era, civil rights activists such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois worked to help African Americans gain racial equality. Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois

  7. Washington believed that African Americans should get a vocational education and earn their equality. Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama

  8. Du Bois believed that African Americans should get a liberal education and demand their equality.

  9. Speaker A: The [African American] demands equality – political equality, industrial equality, and social equality; and he is never going to be satisfied with anything less. Speaker B:Equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races is for the preservation of the public peace and good order. Speaker C:Vocational education will provide the means for African Americans to gain the civil liberties they deserve. Speaker D: The best answer for the equality of the [African American] lies in a return to his homeland in Africa.

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