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 Sports Inexpensive variety show
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