African-American rights Flashcards
When was the 14th Amendment ratified?
July 1868
When was the 15th Amendment ratified?
February 1870
When was the Homestead Act passed, what did it achieve?
1862
gave 17.4 million hectares of land available to African-American farmers, though the land was infertile.
When did the Freedman’s Bureau expire?
July 1872
Williams v Mississippi (1898)
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the provisions of the 1890 Mississippi constitution weren’t unconstitutional as the poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses weren’t discriminatory.
What number of African-Americans in Louisiana could vote in 1896 and 1900?
130,000
5,320
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
The Supreme Court voted 7-1 that the Louisiana Separate Car Act 1890, which required ‘separate, but equal’ railroad accommodation for white and non-white passengers was not unconstitutional. The ‘separate but equal’ clause legalised segregation seen in the South.
Cumming v Board of Education (1899)
legalized school segregation
When was the NAACP founded?
February 1909
When was the Civil Rights Division created?
