Discrimination Against African Americans

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Chapter 20

• Section 3
• Discrimination Against African Americans

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Racism Causes Discrimination

• Key ? How did racism affect African Americans?
• Racists beliefs inspired acts of violence.
• Racist attitudes of African Americans since
  slavery.
• After Reconstruction Southerners struck back.

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Segregation and Jim Crow Laws

• Restricted voting rights by setting up literacy
  (reading tests) and poll taxes to prevent AA
  voting.
• Set up grandfather clauses.
• Jim Crow laws enforced segregation or
  separation of white and black in public places.

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Violence Increases

• Ku Klux Klan used terror and violence to keep AA
  from challenging Jim Crow laws.
• 1,500 lynchings without due process.
• Ida B. Wells AA journalist led fight against
  lynching.
• Some AA moved north to escape discrimination.
• Still had problems with housing and jobs.
• Plessy v. Ferguson Pg. 652

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African Americans Organize

• Key ? What two approaches did African-American
  leaders take in the face of segregation?
• Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee
  Institute in Alabama.
• AA should learn trades, patience, enterprise, and
  thrift. Not challenge segregation. Atlanta
  Compromise.

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W.E.B. Du Bois

• Sociology professor disagreed with Washington.
  
• Should fight segregation
• Pushed for higher education. Talented Tenth.
  Teachers, ministers, and professionals who would
  lead the struggle for equal rights.
• NAACP 1909- National Association for the
  Advancement of Colored People.
• Du Bois, Jane Addams other reformers started.