AFRICAN AMERICANS MOVE NORTH

NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

1) African Americans faced _____________________ and _______________.

In the 1880s and 1890s, many ______________ to the North

DISCRIMINATIONVIOLENCE

AFRICAN AMERICANS

2) African Americans faced serious __________________.

The South passed __________________ or “___________________” laws that kept the

races apart.

One such law was the __________________________ Supreme Court case.

This court case announced that “_____________________________” facilities were legal as long as both white and blacks had “_________________”

SEGREGATIONJIM CROW

PLESSY V. FERGUSON

SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

EQUALITY

PROBLEMS

Another law was created against the ________ Amendment – several

Southern states prohibited black from voting:

1. ____________ (Tax paid in order to vote)

2. __________________ (A reading test)

3. ______________________ – (If your grandfather could vote, then you could vote)

Those who protested were either _____________ or ________________.

15th

BEATEN LYNCHED

POLL TAX

LITERACY TEST

GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

3) There were few ________, poor _____________, and violence.

This made blacks look to the _______

Between 1890 and 1900, ___________ African Americans “migrated” to the North from the South

By 1920, _____________ African Americans lived in cities like Detroit, New York and Chicago

JOBSSCHOOLS

NORTH

200,000

1 million +

This had set in motion the _____________________ when more than 6 million African Americans moved to the North between 1910 and 1930

4) In the north, they still faced _________ and _____________________

“GREAT MIGRATION”

RACISMDISCRIMINATION

5) Other problems:

1) ___________ owners refused to hire them

2) If hired, they were given the ___________ jobs

3) They could not live in _________________

where whites lived

BUSINESS

WORST

NEIGHBORHOODS

6) Violence broke out in 1919 in ______________ - mobs of African

Americans and whites fought each other and _____ were killed

7) Blacks opened colleges –________________ (1867)________________ (1868)________________ (1881) (founded by Booker T. Washington)

CHICAGO

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HOWARD UNIVERSITY

HAMPTON INSTITUTE

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE

8) In 1905, ________________ and numerous others went to Niagara Falls, Canada to protest treatment of African Americans

9) In 1909, the NAACP or the ____________________________________, started. It fought for equal rights for blacks and against racism in jobs, housing and education.

W.E.B. DuBois

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

VOCABULARYMigration - a movement of people within a

country or area

Racism – feelings against people because of race (and skin color)

Plessy vs. Ferguson – landmark Supreme Court case known as the “separate but equal” doctrine in which whites and blacks may be separated as long as blacks receive “separate but equal” access to public facilities