Day 47 Segregation, Discrimination

1. Day 47 Segregation, Discrimination • Homework: 286-289

2. Black girl, black girl, don't you lie to me Tell me where did you stay last night ? In the pines, in the pines Where the sun never shines And I shivered the whole night long. My husband was a railroad Man Died a mile and a half from town His head was found in a drivers wheel and his body was never found. Black Girl (Music style Blues

3. Legal Discrimination • Literacy and administration of test • Poll Tax- intended to target blacks but also hurt whites • Grandfather clause- to allow disqualified whites • Segregation • Jim Crow Laws • 1898 Plessey v. Ferguson- “Separate but equal”

4. Race Relations • Booker T. Washington- Work together for social progress • Ida B. Wells- journalist started campaign against lynching • 1,400 Lynching between 1880 and 1890 • Oppression in north as more blacks moved there

5. Western Discrimination • System of debt peonage against Mexican Americans • 1882 Chinese Exclusion

6. Summary Questions • Term used to describe the separation of people based on race. • She was a journalist who crusaded against racial injustice. • Southern Laws that attempted to prevent intermixing between races. • This was intended to hurt blacks but ultimately hurt poor whites as well. • This was a method to allow disqualified whites to vote. • These were given to prevent blacks from voting. • A system of involuntary labor after the abolition of slavery primarily used against Mexicans. • What was the Supreme Court decision that decided that segregation was acceptable as long as it was “separate but equal” • What was the act that attempted to eliminate immigration of Chinese