How were the African Americans and other minorities discriminated in the U.S. during the late 1800s and early

1900s?

United States History & Government

11th Grade Boys & Girls || Al-Madinah School

February 14, 2017

Legal Discrimination in the South• Voting Restriction

– Literacy Test

– Poll Tax

– Grandfather Clause

• Social Etiquette Rulings– Jim Crow Laws: Laws of Racial Segregation

• Plessey v. Ferguson– Segregation was legal (Separate but Equal)

• African American Leaders’ Reaction to Segregation–Booker T. Washington believed that blacks need

to upgrade their economic status.• This will help alleviate the racial segregation

–W.E. B. Du Bois & Ida B. Wells believed otherwise• They demanded an immediate stop in the

segregation

• Violence–African Americans and other who did not follow

racial etiquette were lynched

Discrimination in the North ( De Facto Segregation)

– As blacks moved to the North in search of social equality and better-paying jobs they found discrimination

– They had to live in segregated neighborhoods

– They were not hired by employers, except as a last resort

– They were not paid equal to the whites

– Competition between the working class whites & blacks ended up in race riots.

Discrimination in the West

• Discrimination against Mexican Workers:–Employed in the railroads, mining and

agriculture of the Southwest; they were paid less

–Debt Peonage was used to bind them to slavery

• Discrimination Against Chinese–Whites’ fear for job competition pushed Chinese

to the segregated schools and neighborhoods.

Homework• Questions 1, 2, 3 & 4 on page 495