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W.E.B. Du Bois

Segregation should be stopped now

• FULL political, civil, and social rights for African Americans.

Booker T. Washington

Accepted segregation

• Equality gained through vocational

education

Plessy V. Ferguson

“Separate but equal” - Supreme Court case

Jim Crow LawsSegregation Laws

Legalized discrimination in housing, work, education, and government

• Laws that limited the rights of blacks• Segregation

1 Reconstruction Policy

Southern military leaders could NOT hold office

2nd Reconstruction Policy

Northern soldiers supervised the South

Segregation

separation of groups of people based on race

Poll tax

tax you have to pay in order to vote

Literacy Test

test you had to take to prove you could read in order to vote

Grandfather Clause

If father or grandfathers were able to vote before 1867, then you could vote

N.A.A.C.P

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Challenged segregation laws• Fought for equal rights for blacks