1865Civil War ends Reconstruction

begins

1870sReconstruction

ends. 15th Amendment

1950s-1960sCivil Rights

movement begins.

1900s-1940s Jim Crow laws prevent African

Americans from voting

Plessy vs Ferguson effected social equality for Black Americans

from 1896 to 1960’s

African American Vote After Slavery

Plessy vs. Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896Ferguson, 1896

Supreme Court Supreme Court legalized segregation legalized segregation

throughout the throughout the nation.nation.

•““Separate but Separate but Equal” Equal” as long as as long as public facilities public facilities

were equalwere equal

•Problem: Problem: Black Black facilities never facilities never equal to White equal to White

facilitiesfacilities

US would be

segregated until the 1960’s.

Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896

Booker T. Booker T. WashingtonWashington

How do Black Americans overcome segregation?

Southern Perspective

W.E.B. DuboisHow do Black Americans overcome

segregation?Northern Perspective

• Fought for immediate Black equality in society

• Talented 10%: Demanded the top 10% of the talented Black population be placed into the “power positions”

• Gain equality by breaking into power structure

• Founder of NAACP National Association for the National Association for the

Advancement of Colored PeopleAdvancement of Colored People

W.E.B. DuboisHow do Black Americans overcome

segregation?Northern Perspective

• Fought for immediate Black equality in society

• Talented 10%: Demanded the top 10% of the talented Black population be placed into the “power positions”

• Gain equality by breaking into power structure

• Founder of NAACP National Association for the National Association for the

Advancement of Colored PeopleAdvancement of Colored People

Improving Conditions for Improving Conditions for African AmericansAfrican Americans

Anti-Lynching – Ida B. Wells –Free Speech.

According to the Tuskegee Institute,

4,742 lynchings

occurred between 1882-1968.

0 to 2020 to 6060 to 100100 to 200200 or more

Lynchings of Whites/Blacks

For which crime was someone For which crime was someone lynched?lynched?

For illegal crimes, such as murder, rape, or theft

But also, people were lynched for insulting a white person, buying a car…

Or even, especially if it was a black lynching, for no crime at all. Just to remind blacks to stay in their place.

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