2. Education Assimilation – The process of by which one culture merges with another – Schools took the lead in assisting assimilation

3. Booker T. Washington Encouraged blacks to use education as a means of achieving economic success Founds Tuskegee University

4. W.E.B Dubois Believed blacks should demand their rights IMMEDIATELY Niagara Movement Organization founded in 1905 Called for civil liberties for blacks and an end to discrimination Co-Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910 The NAACP used the court to fight discrimination

5. Entertainment Vaudeville – Inexpensive variety show – Consisted of comic sketches, dance routines, ventriloquists – Consisted of comic sketches, dance routines, ventriloquists and trapeze artists to name a few Sports – Boxing – Horse racing – Baseball – Football – Basketball

7. Music Ragtime and Jazz become popular (1890’s). Began in New Orleans

8. Jim Crow Laws Laws put in place to disenfranchise blacks (keep former slaves from taking advantage of their new freedoms) Blacks kept from voting Poll Tax Grandfather clause Literacy tests Segregation became commonplace Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) made “Separate but Equal” legal Lynching increased dramatically from 1882 to 1892