standard 13 - administration
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Standard 13 The student will identify major
efforts to reform American society
and politics in the Progressive Era.
Booker T. Washington
Created the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881.
He urged his students to try and become skilled in a trade and to put aside the desires of political equality.
He felt that African Americans would gain acceptance through economics in stead of politics.
His message appealed to many African Americans and also calmed whites worries about educated African Americans trying to seek equality in society.
W.E.B. Dubois
Dubois argued that the brightest African Americans had to step forward to lead their people in their quest for political and social equality and civil rights.
He wanted African Americans to get an advanced liberal arts education instead of getting a vocational education.
Jim Crow
The system of legal segregation.
Why is it called Jim Crow??
"Come listen all you galls and boys,
I'm going to sing a little song,
My name is Jim Crow.
Weel about and turn about and do jis so,
Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow.“
White man heard a black man singing this.
He started touring the country singing and
dancing with his skin painted black. His
show stereotypically illustrated blacks and
became very popular.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court
decision in 1896 that set
up the idea of separate-
but-equal.
This decision allowed for
legal segregation of
blacks and whites.
Lynching
It increased across the country as whites worked to
keep African Americans from exercising their rights.
Between 1882 and 1892, an estimated 1200 African
Americans were lynched.
Lynching- name supposedly came from Captain
William Lynch in Virginia in the late 1700’s who used
certain types of punishment because the courts were
too far.
NAACP
Worked for equality
for blacks on all levels
by using the courts,
strikes, boycotts, etc.
Started in 1909
Which of the following actions would be
illegal under Jim Crow laws?
A. White citizens joining the NAACP.
B. African Americans receiving PhDs.
C. Progressives supporting segregation.
D. Blacks and whites riding together on a train.
Jim Crow laws were passed by southern
legislatures following Reconstruction.
What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws?
A. To expand the rights of African Americans.
B. To ensure segregation of African Americans
in southern society.
C. To force compliance with the 14th and 15th
Amendments.
D. To prohibit southerners from
disenfranchising African Americans.
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