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1 AFRICAN AMERICANS MOVE NORTH

2 NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

3 1) African Americans faced _____________________ and _______________. In the 1880s and 1890s, many ______________ to the North DISCRIMINATION VIOLENCE AFRICAN AMERICANS

4 2) African Americans faced serious __________________. The South passed __________________ or “___________________” laws that kept the races apart. One such law was the __________________________ Supreme Court case. This court case announced that “_____________________________” facilities were legal as long as both white and blacks had “_________________” SEGREGATION JIM CROW PLESSY V. FERGUSON SEPARATE BUT EQUAL EQUALITY PROBLEMS

5 Another law was created against the ________ Amendment – several Southern states prohibited black from voting: 1. ____________ (Tax paid in order to vote) 2. __________________ (A reading test) 3. ______________________ – (If your grandfather could vote, then you could vote) Those who protested were either _____________ or ________________. 15 th BEATENLYNCHED POLL TAX LITERACY TEST GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

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7 3)There were few ________, poor _____________, and violence. This made blacks look to the _______ Between 1890 and 1900, ___________ African Americans “migrated” to the North from the South By 1920, _____________ African Americans lived in cities like Detroit, New York and Chicago JOBS SCHOOLS NORTH 200,000 1 million +

8 This had set in motion the _____________________ when more than 6 million African Americans moved to the North between 1910 and 1930 4)In the north, they still faced _________ and _____________________ “ GREAT MIGRATION” RACISM DISCRIMINATION

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10 5)Other problems: 1) ___________ owners refused to hire them 2) If hired, they were given the ___________ jobs 3) They could not live in _________________ where whites lived BUSINESS WORST NEIGHBORHOODS

11 6)Violence broke out in 1919 in ______________ - mobs of African Americans and whites fought each other and _____ were killed 7)Blacks opened colleges – ________________ (1867) ________________ (1868) ________________ (1881) (founded by Booker T. Washington) CHICAGO 38 HOWARD UNIVERSITY HAMPTON INSTITUTE TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE

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14 8)In 1905, ________________ and numerous others went to Niagara Falls, Canada to protest treatment of African Americans 9)In 1909, the NAACP or the ____________________________________, started. It fought for equal rights for blacks and against racism in jobs, housing and education. W.E.B. DuBois National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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16 VOCABULARY Migration - a movement of people within a country or area Racism – feelings against people because of race (and skin color) Plessy vs. Ferguson – landmark Supreme Court case known as the “separate but equal” doctrine in which whites and blacks may be separated as long as blacks receive “separate but equal” access to public facilities


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