LISA PENNINGTONSOCIAL STUDIES INSTRUCTIONAL

SPECIALISTPORTSMOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS

SOL USII.4c: Discrimination and

Segregation

Essential Understandings

Discrimination against African Americans continued after Reconstruction.

“Jim Crow” laws institutionalized a system of legal segregations.

African Americans differed in their responses to discrimination and “Jim Crow.”

Vocabulary

Racial segregation: separation of people based on race.

“Jim Crow” laws: an institutional system of legal segregation.

Plessy v. Ferguson: 1896 ruling by the Supreme Court that legalized “separate but equal” public facilities for African Americans and thus continued to make discrimination legal.

Vocabulary

Poll tax: a tax paid before a person is allowed to vote; similar to a registration fee.

Literacy test: to show proof of the ability to read and write as a requirement before voting.

Racial segregation

Based on raceDirected primarily against African

Americans, but other groups were also kept segregated

American Indians were not considered citizens until 1924.

“Jim Crow” Laws

“Jim Crow” laws were passed to discriminate against African Americans.

Made discrimination practices legal in many communities and states.

Were characterized by unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government. http://literacyrules.com/Black%20History/TheJimCrowLaws-Front.jpg

African American Responses

Booker T. WashingtonBelieved equality

could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social separation.

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African American Responses

W.E.B. Du BoisBelieved in full

political, civil, and social rights for African Americans. He believed those rights should be given to African Americans immediately.

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Think About It…

What is racial segregation?How were African Americans discriminated

against?How did African Americans respond to

discrimination and “Jim Crow?”