SEGREGATION AND
SOCIAL TENSIONS
Chapter 7 Section 1
What is Segregation?
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Amendments to the Constitution
 13th-Freed
slaves
 14th-Gave slaves citizenship
 15th-Gave slaves the right to vote

1876 Jim Crow laws passed
 Keep
whites and African Americans
separated
I. Voting

Southern states tried to prevent it
 Poll
Tax
 Pay
a fee to vote
 Literacy
 If
Test
you can read, you can vote
Voting (cont’d)
 Grandfather
 If
Clause
your grandfather could vote, you could too
 Whites
and members of KKK would prevent
African Americans from voting with violence
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)


“Separate but equal”
South Carolina spent $14 for every white
student to $3 for every African American
student
Who Opposed Jim Crow
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois

Take time


Assimilate

Vocational
Schools

Demand rights now
Get full
equality

Formal
Education
Who Opposed Jim Crow 2

Ida B. Wells
 Ran
“Free Speech”
 Used
the Press
 Condemned
Lynching
Video
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTm
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