civil rights 2 Flashcards
Black people were granted civil rights in what amendment
14th amendment
what year did slavery end
1865
when was the kkk established
Tennessee May 1866
what did the kkk do
- burned crosses to frighten people
- marched through the streets with violent signs
- kidnapped and lynched black Americans
-between 1918 and 1927 416 blacks were killed
what were the Jim Crow laws
laws that individual states could pass to segregate the races
a Jim Crow law in Florida
all marriages between a white person and a black person are prohibited
Homer Plessy
refused to move from his seat in a white only carriage, he went to court and argued that Jim Crow laws went against federal law, he lost the case and in 1896 the Supreme Court allowed ‘separate but equal’ which did little to stop Jim Crow laws
what did the 15th amendment do
gave black American adult males the right to vote in 1870
voting qualifications
poll tax
literacy tests
grandfather clause
votes before and after restriction
Louisiana - 1896 130,000 black people could vote by 1900 only 5,000
alabama - 1900, 180,000 blacks could vote, only 3,000 in 1902
Booker T. Washington
improved education was the best way to give black Americans more opportunities.
blacks should not antagonise whites by demanding rights, they should earn them
W. Du Bois
helped form the NAACP
used legal action
Marcus Garvey
urged blacks to liberate themselves from white culture and embrace their own heritage
the great migration
between 1910 and 1970 6 million blacks migrated to north and west US to states such as Chicago
