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US History
African American Since the Civil War
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History
7th Grade
04/19/2010

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What is Racial Segregation?
Definition
• Based upon race
• Directed primarily against African Americans, but other groups also were kept segregated
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How were African Americans discriminated against?
Definition
“Jim Crow” laws were passed to discriminate against African Americans.
• Were characterized by unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, government
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Who believed that African Americans would gain equality through vocational education and accepted social separation?
Definition
Booker T. Washington
Term
Who believed in the full political, social, and civil rights for African Americans?
Definition
W.E.B. Du Bois
Term
What phrase was coined from the Supreme Court Case, Plessey vs. Ferguson?
Definition
“Separate but Equal”
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