Civil Rights The Early Years

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Civil Rights The Early Years
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The Slave Trade

• Cash crops cotton and
• tobacco
• Need for labor esp in South

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Life After the Civil War
16 African Americans who represented southern
states in Congress between 1869-1880. The last
black congressman from the south in this era was
George Henry White of NC. Elected in 1897 his
term ended in 1901. For the next 28 years No
African Americans served in Congress.
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Reconstruction

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

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Hate Reigns

• Hate groups flourish
• Whites take away power, restrict voting

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Jim Crow Laws

• Plessy v. Ferguson- Separate but Equal
• Homer Plessy arrested for sitting in whites only
  railroad car in Louisiana
• Supreme court rules separate
• is okay if facilities are equal

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Early Civil Rights Leaders

• Booker T. Washington (former slave) - strength
  through
• WEB DuBois- social and
• political equality
• DuBois founded
• NAACP 1909
• National Association for
• the Advancement of Colored
• People

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Thurgood Marshall NAACPs lead attorney

• Brown vs The Board of Education 1954
• Topeka, Kansas school district sued for
  prohibiting black children from enrolling in
  white school
• NAACP takes it to the Supreme Court
• Earl Warren Chief Justice - ruled SEPARATE IS
  NOT EQUAL

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