1. White Privilege

2. The Civil Rights Movement
Setting the Stage

3. Democracy Human Rights Legal equality
Everybody is treated the same under the law
Everybody has the right to due process (fair trial)
Rule of Law (laws must be enforced)
Government formed upon the consent of the governed
Free and fair elections

4. Slavery

5. Slave States

6. Civil War

8. FREEDOM!!...? Thirteenth Amendment (1865) Fourteenth Amendment (1868)
Slaves are granted freedom
Fourteenth Amendment (1868)
Ex-slaves are granted citizenship & equal protection under the law
Fifteenth Amendment (1870)
Race cannot be used to deny people the right to vote

9. A History of Racism Sharecropping Disenfranchisement
Separate but equal
Jim Crow laws
Lynching
Blackface

10. Sharecropping
A system of agriculture where a farmer rents land in exchange for a percentage of the profits
This system kept tenant farmers indebted and under the control White landowners who still owned most of the land

11. Disenfranchisement
A series of tactic were used to keep Blacks from being allowed to vote
Violence and Intimidation
Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clauses

13. Disenfranchisement

14. Disenfranchisement in Canada
Indigenous people weren’t given full voting rights until 1960
The Fair Elections Act (2014) was meant to cut down on electoral fraud
Banned the use of vouching and use of voter information cards

15. Segregation

16. Segregation
Segregation

17. Segregation

18. Separate But Equal
A legal loophole that allowed for racial segregation even though the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed equal treatment
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Segregation laws created a segregated culture

19. Jim Crow “Terror as a means of social control”
Segregation laws that disadvantaged black people became known as Jim Crow laws
Many unwritten rules existed under Jim Crow

20. Lynching

21. Lynching
Acts of “justice” carried out with the complicity of the local population that denies a person due process
Lynching was used as a way to ensure White supremacy and to make sure the Black population remained submissive
Between 1882 and 1927, 35,000 Blacks were lynched in the United States

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24. Blackface
Minstrel Shows were a popular form of entertainment that played on stereotypes of Blacks as simple-minded

25. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow
What lessons did Wright learn on how to live as a Negro under Jim Crow? Who taught him these lessons? How were these lessons taught?

26. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow
What impressions did Pease and Morrie leave Wright with about his chances of “working his way up” under Jim Crow? Why do you think they reacted in this way?
What do the encounters police in this story tell you about equal-treatment under the law under Jim Crow?
What do you think that the fact all the Black servants at the hotel were all smiles told the White folk about the Jim Crow system?
Why do you think some topics were off limits for discussion among White and Black groups?

27. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow
What do you think was meant by the closing statement “Ef it wuzn't fer them polices 'n' them ol' lynch-mobs, there wouldn't be nothin' but uproar down here!”?