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Review of the Jim Crow Era and Laws

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Jim Crow   character created by white actor Daddy Rice, where he would cover his face with charcoal and then sing and dance in a silly way  
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Jim Crow   used to describe any racist law that restricted the rights and opportunities of black people  
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Black Codes   laws created in the South to create legal forms of segregation  
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Segregation   when people are separated by race  
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1/8   you were considered black if you had at least this much of African heritage; in other words you had at least one black great grandparent  
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Miscenenation   mixing of the races  
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Public Accommodation   a public place where people spend time such as restaurants, hotels, theaters, libraries, public swimming pools, bathrooms, and even drinking fountains,  
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Plessy v. Ferguson   Landmark Supreme Court case which stated that the principal of "separate but equal" was enough to satisfy the 14th Amendment  
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Homer Plessy   a man who was 1/8 black who sat in the whites only section of a railroad car in 1890 in Louisiana  
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13th Amendment   abolished slavery in the United States  
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14th Amendment   states that all people born in the United States are now citizens, the government must give all people equal protection of the law, and apply the laws in the same way to all people  
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White Primary   only white people could vote in the primary party elections, so they decided who would be running in the regular election  
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Grandfather Clause   only those who had grandfathers who could vote before the Civil War were allowed to vote in elections  
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Poll Tests   citizens had to pass reading and logic questions that the poll worker "graded". If you were white, you usually passed.  
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Poll Taxes   citizens had to pay a fee to the poll worker before they could vote  
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Intimidation & Violence   in order to register or get to the polls, blacks faced threats, beatings, and false arrests  
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Booker T. Washington   founded Tuskegee Institute to train blacks in agriculture and education  
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W.E.B. DuBois   created the NAACP to fight discriminatory laws  
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W.E.B. DuBois   would agree with the following statement, "Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow."  
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Booker T. Washington   would agree with the following statement, "It is the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."  
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Booker T. Washington   would agree with the following statement, "We can earn constitutional rights through economic security and respectability."  
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W.E.B. DuBois   would agree with the following statement, "Protesting is necessary to fight for constitutional rights."  
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