The Rise of Segregation

1. The Rise of Segregation Resistance and Repression

2. The Exodusters Head to Kansas • African Americans moved west • Formed independent communities • 6000 African Americans left home and moved to Kansas • Exodus, leaving to start a new life

3. Forming a separate alliance • Other African Americans joined the Farmers’ Alliance • 1886 African Americans formed the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance • 1.2 million members • Used racist ties to get people to stop helping the African American farmers with not allowing them to vote.

4. Imposing segregation • Taking Away the vote • 15th Amendment, citizens have the right to vote • Poll tax • $2 to vote • Literacy test • Grandfather clause • Legalizing segregation • Discrimination

5. Jim Crow Laws • “It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.”—Birmingham, Alabama, 1930

6. Civil Rights Cases • 1883, Supreme Court set out to legalize segregation • Overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875 • 14th amendment • No state could deny equal protection under the law to it’s citizens • Southern States made public places separate

7. Plessy vs. Ferguson • 1892 • Challenge of riding in separate train cars • Arrested for riding in the “white’s only” car • Upheld the ruling of separate cars • Separate but equal

8. African American Response • Ida B. Wells • 187 lynching • Mob chased her out of town • Moved to Chicago • Mary Church Terrell • Women wage-earners • Led a boycott of department stores • W.E.B DuBois • Writer about the need to fight for civil rights • Booker T. Washington • Called for Economic goals rather than political goals