1. Chapter 8-3 Segregation and Discrimination

2. Objective: to learn that….
Races were legally separated
Segregation was in the North and South
The Civil Rights Mvmt. fights against racism

3. This is important because…..
The slavery and the Civil War still haunt us.
The road to equality has been long, but slow progress has been made. Examples?
Segregation is still w/ us. Do we do it to ourselves? Examples?

4. Essential Issue After the Civil War ended (April 1865),
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were an attempt to give civil rights to the 5 million recently freed slaves.
This section is about the attempt to limit African-American’s civil rights and keep AA’s unequal.

5. Let’s make this section a (an)…..
Examination of our past and a comparison to our present
Celebration of progress and evolution
Look at leaders who risked much in the quest for equality
Look at ourselves….what do we believe? Why do we believe it?

6. Video 1. American Anthem (Holt)
Impact of the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Good summary of amendments, Plessy and Brown
Search Youtube for biographies of WEB and BTW.
Less than 4 min. each

7. 8-3 vocab
Poll tax literacy test Grandfather clause segregation Jim Crow Laws Ida B. Wells

8. FQ: Oct. 24
What academic strategies did you use during the 1st marking period?
How successful were they?
What academic strategies will you use during the 2nd marking period to be even more successful?

9. Focus Q: Oct. 31 Textbook page 288
Red sub-heading “Discrimination in the North”
Read last paragraph beginning “Sometimes the……”
What was the cause of the riots?

10. Focus Q: Nov. 1 If you were so inclined:
What could you do, as an individual, to end any type of prejudice/discrimination/racism?

11. Focus Q: Friday, 10/18
What do you know about William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and Booker Taliaferro Washington?
How were they similar?
How were they different?

12. Focus Q: Wednesday, Oct. 8
Write a ½ page describing at least 3 ways white Southerners took away AA’s political/social rights in the late 1800s.

13. Focus Q: Friday, 10/11
Racism and discrimination are an shameful part of the history of the US.
Give 3 examples of the undeniable progress our country has made in pursuit of equality.

14. Focus Q: Monday, Oct. 27
What people do you know about who have helped in the African American struggle for equality.
What do you know about them? What did they do? What happened to them? Where are they today?

15. Focus Q Read ______ 3 bullet point notes 1 sentence summmary
Any key words? phrases?

16. Focus Question 10/9
You are an African American in the time period we’ve been discussing and you’ve just turned 21 (the voting age back then). You live in the Deep South.
Would you vote in elections? Why or why not?
What threats might you face to your voting rights?

17. Focus Q: Oct. 23
See “Historical Spotlight” on page How were DuBois’ and Washington’s beliefs similar and different?

18. Focus Q
What do you think about the history of the United States? How have we done?
Give us a grade
Give reasons for the grade

19. They soon faced violent opposition from whites who:
For 10 years after Reconstruction ended (1877), AA’s in the South voted and sometimes held office
They soon faced violent opposition from whites who:
Developed policies of racial discrimination
Weakened AA POLITICAL power

20. Voting Restrictions The goal in the south was disenfranchisement:
Take away your right to vote

21. Voting Restrictions
Literacy test
Poll tax
Grandfather clause

22. Voting Restrictions more difficult questions
1. ***Literacy test***—must read to vote, AA’s asked:
more difficult questions
Sometimes in a foreign language
Officials could pass/fail who they wanted
Show Louisiana Literacy Test

23. Voting Restrictions ***Poll tax***: annual tax to vote
Poor AA’s and whites kept from voting
To reinstate white voters…….

24. Voting Restrictions—a way to allow poor, illiterate whites to vote
***Grandfather Clause***: If you were white and couldn’t pay poll tax or read
Could vote if your father or GF were eligible to vote b/f Jan. 1, 1867
Only helps whites, AA’s couldn’t vote b/f this date

25. Trying to vote could be deadly

26. ***Segregation: separate people by race***
Jim Crow Laws
At the same time AA’s lose voting rights, ***Jim Crow Laws***
Segregation laws passed in the South to keep blacks and whites apart and unequal***
***Segregation: separate people by race***

27. Jim Crow Laws Schools hospitals pools, beaches
public transportation restaurants
Theaters parks restrooms
drinking fountains cemeteries
bleachers at sporting events
prisons barbers
Segregation from cradle to grave

29. Images of Jim Crow

30. Quotes to ponder……
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.  Robin Williams
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Theodore Roosevelt

31. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Homer Plessy (30): octoroon, sat in white RR car in New Orleans, was challenging the Separate Car Act (1892)
Supreme Court case ruled:
Separation of races in public transportation did not violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection under the law clause

32. Homer Plessy
Any
questions?

33. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) gave us:
***Segregation in public accommodations***
***Separate but equal***
***Legalized segregation for 58 yrs.***
Were separate, but not equal
Will last until Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

36. Plessy video United Streaming
A History of Black Achievement in America: Blacks enter the Gilded Age
Segment #7 Plessy v. Ferguson case upholds segregation

37. Ha ha….he he…….
What do you call a limber Filipino?
A manila folder

38. Racial Etiquette ***Racial rules that AA’s had to follow***
A way for Southern whites to “keep Blacks in line”
degraded and humiliated AA’s
Meant 2nd class citizenship for AA’s

39. Racial Etiquette examples
AA’s and whites don’t shake hands—implies equality
AA’s yield sidewalk to whites
AA men take off their hat for whites
AA man would never light the cig of white women
Whites have right of way at all intersections
Restaurants don’t serve AA/whites in same room
AA’s sit in back of all transportation
Don’t look whites in the eyes—”eyeball me”

40. Violence 1885 to 1900—2500 + AA’s lynched, shot, burned in the South
If you didn’t follow the racial etiquette—consequences could be severe
lose your job, have mortgage called in (pay it now), business boycotted, threatened, beaten, house burned, lynched
lynching—illegal execution, no trial, carried out by a mob (often)
1885 to 1900— AA’s lynched, shot, burned in the South

41. Violence
if AA’s showed signs of economic success they were often targets for lynching
most dangerous person to a AA man in the South—white women—anything remotely sexual could get you killed (Emmet Till)

42. Emmett Till

43. Lynching is murder
Oklahoma
1911
1925

44. Booker T. Washington ***Gradual approach***to racial equality
1st get economic skills, later social equality
***Began Tuskegee Institute*** to train AA as teachers, farming and mechanical skills
Less threatening to whites than WEB or Ida B. Wells
Was this a good approach? Why or why not?

45. Booker T. Washington AA’s should get practical skills
Gradual path to equality

46. ***immediate social/political equality for AA’s***
W.E.B. Du Bois
***immediate social/political equality for AA’s***
Much more threatening to whites
1st AA to earn a Ph.D from Harvard
AA’s should get a liberal arts education so AA communities would have educated leaders
Said the “talented tenth” should try to get immediate inclusion into US society
disagreed w/ BTW’s slow approach

47. W.E.B. Du Bois 1905 starts Niagara Movement 1909 it becomes NAACP
Edits “The Crisis,” NAACP magazine

48. WEB
Du Bois
Immediate equality for AA’s

49. Discrimination in the North
AA’s migrated North for:
Push factors—escape discrimination, violence
Pull factors—better pay, social equality

50. Discrimination in the North
1. find discrimination in North too
banks, realtors, local laws keep AA’s out of white neighborhoods
workplace—last hired, 1st fired, worst jobs, less pay
unions won’t let them in
job competition, racism btwn AA’s and whites sometimes erupted in race riots—NYC 1900

51. Discrimination in the North
Textbook page 288
Red sub-heading “Discrimination in the North”
Read last paragraph beginning “Sometimes the……”
What was the cause of the riots?

52. Equality Continuum
Since the 1880s, has the US made significant progress towards equality for all Americans?
Support your answer with evidence.
/ / /
Total
Equality No
Equality

53. Summarize
On focus Q page
3 things you learned
I wonder……
1 simile

54. 8-3 Left Side
Draw a picture and a caption for each of the 3 voting restrictions used in the South
Picture must show the relationship btwn 2 things
USE COLOR!! 

55. Write a poem about Racism/Discrimination
This poem could be:
Your personal feelings
Your personal experiences
Info from the textbook
Create an appropriate title
Poem must be at least 12 lines
Picture representing the content of your poem

56. (2) similes using any 2 terms in 8-3
_______ is like ______ because _____.
(term in 8-3) is like (something very different) because (what they have in common).
you are comparing very different things

57. Here are some examples……
MSU is like my wife b/c I love them both.
Stars are like the Bible b/c they both provide guidance.