Racial Segregation

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Racial Segregation and Cultural Conflicts
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Racial Segregation

• Based upon race
• Directed primarily against African Americans, but
  other groups also were kept segregated

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Separation by race
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Jim Crow Laws
Laws passed to discriminate against African
Americans
Made discrimination practices legal in many
communities and states Created unequal work,
education, housing and government
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Jim Crow
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court case that stated segregation IS
legal
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African American Response
Booker T. Washington -believed equality could be
achieved through vocational (job) education
accepted social segregation
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African American Response
W.E.B. DuBois -believed in full political, civil,
and social rights for African Americans believed
in higher education
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Discrimination Against Immigrants

• Other targeted groups included
• Chinese
• Irish

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Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to
limit the number of Chinese Immigrants
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Sources Jim Crow www.pbs.org www.nps.gov www.asmi
lan.org Booker T. Washington www.historyplace.com
W.E.B. Du Bois web.grinnell.edu Chinese
Exclusion Act www.pbs.org