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de jure segregation

By: William Burrows. de jure segregation. De jure segregation. De jure segregation was racial segregation required by law, that was not just applied in the south but all over the entire U.S. De jure comes from the Latin root jure meaning “law”. The Law.

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de jure segregation

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  1. By: William Burrows de jure segregation

  2. De jure segregation • De jure segregation was racial segregation required by law, that was not just applied in the south but all over the entire U.S. • De jure comes from the Latin root jure meaning “law”

  3. The Law • Approved in 1896 when Plessey vs. Ferguson was brought fourth in the supreme court. • Said to not violate the 14th amendment as long as the conditions were separate but equal. • Equality wasn't exactly the word when African American communities, school buildings and housing property was well not as good as white neiborhoods.

  4. History • The Civil Rights Act of 1875 • The Jim Crow Laws which focused on equal access to public activities and facilities (1910) • Separation of blacks and whites in the South and some parts of the North

  5. Problems • Collapse of amendment sparked controversy in the world • Whites opposed the right of blacks voting • Independent tests for Democrat power remained in the south • Ku Klux Klan terrorized African American political leaders

  6. Hypersegergation • African Americans move for work in inner-cities • Large moving of white American to the suburbs • Term used to described movement was “White Flight”

  7. Separate but equal • Key focus in Civil Rights Movement • Term commonly used by the NAACP’s attorneys during Brown vs. Board of Education case • African American service poor or low quality

  8. Issues • Government made laws that segregated the country • States can pick where a different race can or can’t live • Anti-Miscegenation law stated the whites and blacks cannot marry

  9. Sports • Little universities would let their athletic teams be integrated • 1933 NFL expanded the limit to the entire league • Blacks and Whites would often play in different leagues in basketball • 15 states had no law of segregation in baseball

  10. Any Questions

  11. Bibliography • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States • http://www.adversity.net/Terms_Definitions/TERMS/Segregation.htm • http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/hands-on-classroom/classroom/pages/projects/grade12/lesson10/graphics/Segregation.gif

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