SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION

Chapter 8, Section 3

By Erin Markham

African Americans Fight Legal Discrimination The African Americans faced hostile and

often violent opposition from the whites. There was a law that Africans could

never be equal with the whites, but they never stopped fighting.

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896- Supreme Court ruled the separation of races in public accommodations

Did not violate the Fourteenth Ammendment

“Separate but equal”

Turn of the Century Race Relations Blacks were to be a second class to

whites A black man never shook the hand of a

white man Blacks had to yield to white pedestrians on

sidewalks Blacks had to remove their hats for whites If the black man did not follow these rules

they were lynched

Discrimination in the South Until at least 1887 the African Americans were

able to vote 20th century-began to develop laws to weaken

African American’s political power Voting Restrictions Denied Legal Equality Literate voters and poll taxes Grandfather clause- man was still entitled to

vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been registered to vote before January 1, 1867

Jim Crow Laws

Discrimination in the North Blacks thought they would be treated

better in the north Segregated neighborhoods Discriminated in the workplace New York City Race Riot 1900

Discrimination in the West

Native Americans Asian immigrants Mexicans in southwest

Sources

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm18.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation

http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/jimcrowlaw1/Jim_Crow_Laws.htm

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