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Jim Crow in the South. Haydn Quartet Sweet Adeline. Standard. SS8H7 The student will evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia between 1877 and 1918. . Element.
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Jim Crowin theSouth Haydn Quartet Sweet Adeline
Standard SS8H7 The student will evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia between 1877 and 1918. Element b. Analyze how rights were denied to African-Americans through Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, disenfranchisement, and racial violence.
Essential Question How did politics deny rights to certain individuals and groups during this era?
Today’s Agenda Open: ~ Video, “Separate but Equal” Work ~ Interactive PowerPoint notes Session: ~ Textbook Read-Aloud ~ Coach Book Lesson 15 and 16 ~ Video, “Story Time with Mr. Beats – Plessy v. Ferguson” Close: ~ Add people to “Faces of the New South” Bio Book
Today’s Key Terms • Jim Crow laws • civil rights • Homer Plessy • “separate but equal” • suffrage • disenfranchisement
Fight for Civil Rights • Civil Rights: rights a person has because they are a citizen • “Jim Crow” laws: passed to separate blacks and whites
Plessy v. Ferguson • Supreme Court decision which approved Jim Crow Laws • established the concept of “separate but equal” • decision in place until 1954 Homer Plessy
Cummings v. Richmond County Board of Education: • Supreme Court decision supporting segregated schools in Georgia
Loss of Voting RightsDisenfranchisement • Laws were created to keep African Americans in the South from voting • Grandfather Clause: only those men whose fathers or grandfathers were eligible to vote in 1867 could vote • Poll Tax: a tax paid to vote (most African-Americans could not afford this) • voters had to own property (most African-Americans had been sharecroppers and did not own their own land) • voters had to pass a literacy test(different for different people) • Gerrymandering: election districts drawn up to divide the African American voters
Textbook Read-Aloud Pages 351–352 Please read one paragraph and call on someone else. Complete questions 1-15 on your notes sheet. Complete coach book lessons 15 and 16 on your notes sheet.
Plessy v. Ferguson Video Logs Record at least 2 facts to share with the share.
“Bio Book” Checklist (Page 1) Haydn Quartet Sweet Adeline