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The Origins of Segregation and Civil Rights

Mr. Wyatt. The Origins of Segregation and Civil Rights. How It Began. Post Civil War – the original ruling class rebuilt the old South as much as possible. Why do this in the first place? How was this accomplished? What supported their efforts ? “Jim Crow” Laws –

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The Origins of Segregation and Civil Rights

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  1. Mr. Wyatt The Origins of Segregation and Civil Rights

  2. How It Began Post Civil War – the original ruling class rebuilt the old South as much as possible. • Why do this in the first place? • How was this accomplished? • What supported their efforts ? • “Jim Crow” Laws – • De JureSegregation - • “The Knights of the Invisible Empire” – • Lynching • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) – Happened in other places besides • De Facto Segregation - Happened to other groups too – • Gentleman’s Agreement of 1906 -

  3. Slavery that wasn’t slavery for all groups Debt Peonage – workers were forced into a form of debt slavery to an employer • Happened to various groups • Chinese Exclusion Act • Outlawed in 1911 as a violation of the 13thAd.

  4. Birth of the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th Century Economic Equality Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School (George Washington Carver) (Conciliation) vs. Social Equality W.E.B. DuBois Niagara Movement NAACP Talented Tenth (Agitation)

  5. Leisure Time With the mechanization of life, Americans began to have leisure time to spend with families and friends • Parks • Baseball (1903 1st W.S.), Tennis, • Amusement Parks – Coney Island New Snacks Sold at these parks • Coca – Cola, Hershey’s 5 cent bar, Wrigley’s Gum

  6. READING Reading was the way people relaxed or got the news of the day Joseph Pulitzer – owner of the NY World William Randolph Hearth – NY Morning Journal, SF Examiner and others Fiction “dime novels” -

  7. Better authors L. Frank Baum – Samuel Clemens – Jack London -

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