Segregation and Accommodation Flashcards
Jim Crow laws, a set of racist and discriminatory rules and regulations against African Americans, were enacted
in the South starting in the mid- to late 1800s
Booker T. Washington believed that the best strategy to end racial segregation was for African Americans to
adapt to it as they worked to gain equality
Which of the following directly violated the intent of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
poll taxes
In Plessy V. Ferguson, Homer Plessy claimed that “separate but equal” violated his rights under the
Fourteenth Amendment
Which statement best describes the relationship between Jim Crow laws and “the separate but equal” doctrine?
Jim Crow laws were designed to enforce this doctrine by requiring racial segregation for public facilities
The court case plus V. Ferguson challenged the legality of
racially segregated train cars
During the Jim Crow era, southern states imposed poll taxes and literacy test in order to
prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote
Read the quotation from Justice John Marshall Harlan and his Plessy V.Ferguson dissent in 1896.
“Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.”
The views Harlan expressed in this quotation were
later adopted by the Supreme Court in the Brown V. Board of Education decision
Jim Crow laws were a legalized system of
discrimination against African Americans
Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington’s 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech.
“[P]rogress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of of forcing.”
In this, quotation, Washington is expressing his view that
the government cannot legislate equality
Booker T. Washington‘s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute eventually
grew from a small school into a university
Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery: An Autobiography.
“Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded.”
How does this quotation relate to Washington’s theory of accommodation?
He believed that in a merit base society, hard work and patience would lead to racial equality
