AfricanAmerican Life

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• African-American Life
• After Reconstruction
• (1877 1954)

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The World of Jim Crow
system of legal segregation and de facto
inequality for blacks
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LynchingAnother aspect of the Jim Crow world
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The World of Jim Crow

• All persons born or naturalized in the United
  States . . . are citizens of the United States
  and of the State wherein they reside. No State
  shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
  the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
  United States nor shall any State deprive any
  person of life, liberty, or property, without due
  process of law nor deny to any person within its
  jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Does the 14th Amendment forbid segregation?
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African-American Leadership in the Era of Jim Crow
W.E.B Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
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African-American Leadership
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B Du Bois
Said blacks needed to rise up economically
before demanding equal rights Supported
technical and vocational training Didnt
disagree with segregation. More popular with
whites and the government Book Up From
Slavery, (1901)
Demanded equal rights immediately. Supported
higher education of blacks Book The Souls of
Black Folk, (1903)
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1895)

• Supreme Court Case
• Upholds Louisiana segregation of rail cars
• Permits Separate but Equal segregation
• Consequence 60 more years of inequality

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Plessy Overturned
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
(1954) Supreme Court rules In the field of
education, separate but equal has not place.
Separate educational facilities are inherently
unequal