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Aim: Whose message would you support for ending Jim Crow: Washington or DeBois?

Aim: Whose message would you support for ending Jim Crow: Washington or DeBois?. Imagine these laws:. All blacks shall be required to own real property in order to qualify to vote.

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Aim: Whose message would you support for ending Jim Crow: Washington or DeBois?

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  1. Aim: Whose message would you support for ending Jim Crow: Washington or DeBois?

  2. Imagine these laws: • All blacks shall be required to own real property in order to qualify to vote. • No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which Negro men are placed. • It shall be unlawful for a Negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards. • No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls. • The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons.

  3. Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution With the passage of these amendments to the Constitution, African Americans expected all of the rights of citizenship. African American males specifically expected the right to vote because the 15th Amendment stated, “The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

  4. Evolution of the Jim Crow South Disenfranchisement of African Americans Grandfather Clause Poll Tax Literacy Test Intimidation and Fear

  5. Jim Crow Laws Systematic State-Level Legal Codes of Segregation Transportation Schools Libraries Drinking Fountains Morgues and Funeral Parlors

  6. Plessy vs. Ferguson The Case: Homer Plessy, 1/8th black, was arrested for sitting in the “white car” of a Louisiana train in violation of that state’s “Separate Car Act.” The case was appealed to Supreme Court.

  7. Supreme Court Ruling 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson The Ruling: SEPARATE facilities were lawful as long as they were EQUAL. Supreme Court in 1896

  8. Plessy v. Ferguson The Result: Legalized Jim Crow Segregation until 1954 (Brown v. Board of Education)

  9. Two African Americans, Two Diverse Backgrounds Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois

  10. Howard University: one of the oldest black Universities in the USA. (D.C)

  11. Tuskegee Institute: Alabama

  12. Senior class in Agricultural Education at Tuskegee Institute

  13. Booker T. Washington • Felt that black people should work to gain economic security before equal rights • Believed black people will “earn” equality • Born a slave in VA.

  14. Booker T. Washington • Developed programs for job training and vocational skills at Tuskegee Institute • Asked whites to give job opportunities to black people • Was popular with white leaders in the North and South

  15. W.E.B. DuBois • Strongly opposed Booker T. Washington’s tolerance of segregation • Demanded immediate equality for blacks

  16. W.E.B. DuBois • Felt talented black students should get a classical education • Founded the NAACP along with other black and white leaders

  17. W.E.B. DuBois Born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts Well educated-First African American to receive Ph.D. from Harvard Wanted immediate equality between blacks and whites Wanted classical higher education for blacks The Niagara Movement – led to NAACP

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