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The Rise of Segregation

The Rise of Segregation. Resistance & Repression. After Reconstruction, most African-American sharecrop Poor and indebted Many AA join Populist Party To appeal to more whites, Democrats use racism Many African-American rights undermined Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests to vote

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The Rise of Segregation

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  1. The Rise of Segregation

  2. Resistance & Repression • After Reconstruction, most African-American sharecrop • Poor and indebted • Many AA join Populist Party • To appeal to more whites, Democrats use racism • Many African-American rights undermined • Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests to vote • 1867 Grandfather Clause for poor whites

  3. Legalized Segregation • Jim Crow laws: institutionalized discrimination and segregation in South • 1883: Supreme Court overturns Civil Rights Act of 1875 • 1896: Plessy vs. Ferguson: “separate but equal”

  4. African-American Response • Ida B. Wells: fights against mob violence • Lynchings • Mary Church Terrell: Fights for women • To compromise, or not to compromise • W.E.B. Du Bois vs. Booker T. Washington

  5. On page 137, write and answer questions 1-5

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