The Rise of SegregationResistance and Repression

Imposing segregation• A movement to take away African American rights gained

followers. • Taking Away the vote• 15th Amendment, citizens have the right to vote

• Cannot be discriminated against due to race, gender, or previous servitude

• Methods to make voting a challenge for African Americans • Poll tax• $2 to vote

• Literacy test• Grandfather clause

• Allowed White Men to vote if he had a relative that voted in 1867

• Legalizing segregation• Discrimination

Jim Crow Laws• “It shall be unlawful

for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.”—Birmingham, Alabama, 1930

Civil Rights Cases• 1883, Supreme Court set out to legalize segregation• Overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875

• 14th amendment• No state could deny equal protection under the law to it’s citizens

for public places• Private businesses could practice segregation

• Southern States made public places separate

Plessy vs. Ferguson• 1892• Homer Plessy challenged

riding in separate train cars for blacks and whites

• Arrested for riding in the “white’s only” car

• Upheld the ruling of separate cars

• Separate but equal• Difference between

political rights and social rights

African American Response• Ida B. Wells• 187 lynching/year without proper court proceedings • Mob chased her out of town• Moved to Chicago to publish a book about mob violence

• Mary Church Terrell• Women wage-earners

• Assisted nurses, waitresses, and domestic workers• Led a boycott of department stores

• W.E.B DuBois• Writer about the need to fight for civil rights

• Booker T. Washington• Called for Economic goals rather than political goals