Objective 7.03

Objective 7.03

Evaluate the effects of racial segregation on different regions and segments of the US society.

Disenfranchisement• To deny a person their right

to vote

Literacy Tests

• Testing a person’s literacy to determine their eligibility to vote, meant to disenfranchise black voters

Poll Taxes

• A tax to determine a person’s eligibility to vote meant to disenfranchise black voters

Grandfather Clause

• A person’s eligibility to vote is determined by whether their grandfather could vote meant to disenfranchise black voters

Plessey vs. Ferguson

• Court Case that established the doctrine of “separate but equal”

Booker T. Washington

• African American educator; everyone’s money is green, African Americans should seek equality through vocational training and employment

Atlanta Compromise Speech

• Speech by Booker T. Washington asking African Americans to go to work and Southern Whites to hire them

WEB Dubois

• African American Educator, 1st African American to graduate from Harvard, African American should seek Academic education and demand immediate equal rights including the right to vote

NAACP

• Organization started by WEB Dubois and other African Americans for equal rights, established by leaders of the Niagara Movement

Niagara Movement

• Meeting of leading African Americans to discuss the movement for equal rights for African Americans at Niagara Falls

Ida Wells Barnett

• She was a teacher, editor of local newspaper, fought against lynching

Lynching

• Killing or torturing someone because of their race, beliefs

Great Migration

• Movement of African Americans from the South to the North before, during and after WWI

QuizSFI• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)• Wilmington race riot (1898)• Booker T. Washington• Tuskegee Institute• Atlanta Compromise Speech• W.E.B. Du Bois• Niagara Movement• The NAACP• The Crisis• Ida B. Wells Barnett• Lynching• Great Migration• Disenfranchisement• Literacy test• Poll taxes• Grandfather clauses• De jure segregation• De facto segregation• Jim Crow Laws

Concepts:• Conflict• Power• Leadership• Equality• Reform

Choose 5 of the SFI and tell how each relates to 1 of the Concepts.