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The Rise of Segregation

The Rise of Segregation. Chapter 6 Section 5. Exodusters. African American migrants to Kansas Led by Benjamin “Pap” Singleton Why did they go?. African Americans and Populists. Colored Farmers’ National Alliance: 1886 1891: Populist party formed, many African-Americans joined

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The Rise of Segregation

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  1. The Rise of Segregation Chapter 6 Section 5

  2. Exodusters • African American migrants to Kansas • Led by Benjamin “Pap” Singleton • Why did they go?

  3. African Americans and Populists • Colored Farmers’ National Alliance: 1886 • 1891: Populist party formed, many African-Americans joined • Democrats threatened “Black Republican” rule

  4. Taking Away the Vote • 15th Amendment: states cannot deny the vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” • 1890: Mississippi introduced $2 poll tax and literacy test • Other states followed suit • “Grandfather Clause”

  5. Segregation • De facto: Northern segregation • People lived in different areas • De jure: Southern segregation • Enforced by law • Jim Crow laws

  6. Jim Crow • 1883: Supreme Court overturned Civil Rights Act of 1875-designed to stop segregation • 14th Amendment only applied to government owned facilities • Southern states began passing laws that enforced segregation in privately owned places

  7. Plessy v. Ferguson • 1892: Homer Plessy rode in white only train car and was arrested • 1896: Supreme Court upheld the law • Separate but equal principal established

  8. Ida B. Wells • 1890-1899: average of 187 lynchings per year • Wells launched a campaign against lynching • Lynching numbers fell in the 1900s

  9. Mary Church Terrell • Fought against lynching, racism and sexism • Helped found National Association of Colored Women, NAACP

  10. Booker T. Washington • Wanted African-Americans to focus on economic goals, not political ones • Atlanta Compromise • Postpone fight for civil rights, focus on education

  11. W.E.B. DuBois • The Souls of Black Folk: written in response to Atlanta Compromise • Rejected compromise • Focused on maintaining and excercising voting rights

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