Reconstruction (1865-1876)
... The Republican South • During Radical Reconstruction, the Republican Party was a mixture of people who had little in common except a desire to prosper in the postwar South. This bloc of voters included freedmen and two other groups: carpetbaggers and scalawags. – Northern Republicans who moved to t ...
... The Republican South • During Radical Reconstruction, the Republican Party was a mixture of people who had little in common except a desire to prosper in the postwar South. This bloc of voters included freedmen and two other groups: carpetbaggers and scalawags. – Northern Republicans who moved to t ...
A Dream Deferred: The Politics of Race in America
... eliminate restrictions on voting that had been used to discriminate against blacks. A major provision of the Voting Rights Act suspended the use of literacy tests. 4 The discriminatory legal vestiges of Jim Crow had finally been dismantled. Blacks now had achieved the right to use all public accomm ...
... eliminate restrictions on voting that had been used to discriminate against blacks. A major provision of the Voting Rights Act suspended the use of literacy tests. 4 The discriminatory legal vestiges of Jim Crow had finally been dismantled. Blacks now had achieved the right to use all public accomm ...
Civil Rights Movement - Riverside Unified School District
... write, which disqualified many African Americans who had not had access to education; property ownership, which excluded most African Americans, and paying a poll tax, which prevented most Southern African Americans from voting because they could not afford it. ...
... write, which disqualified many African Americans who had not had access to education; property ownership, which excluded most African Americans, and paying a poll tax, which prevented most Southern African Americans from voting because they could not afford it. ...
Civil Rights Movement - North Hunterdon
... write, which disqualified many African Americans who had not had access to education; property ownership, which excluded most African Americans, and paying a poll tax, which prevented most Southern African Americans from voting because they could not afford it. ...
... write, which disqualified many African Americans who had not had access to education; property ownership, which excluded most African Americans, and paying a poll tax, which prevented most Southern African Americans from voting because they could not afford it. ...
Reconstruction
... the United States, and shall have resided in this State one year next preceding an election, and the last six months within the district, county, city or town in which he offers to vote, (Indians not taxed, Africans and descendants of Africans excepted,) shall be deemed a qualified elector.” -- Texa ...
... the United States, and shall have resided in this State one year next preceding an election, and the last six months within the district, county, city or town in which he offers to vote, (Indians not taxed, Africans and descendants of Africans excepted,) shall be deemed a qualified elector.” -- Texa ...
Chapter 11: The Peculiar Institution
... of American freedom. Americans now happily accumulated debt in order to maintain a consumer lifestyle. Television especially spread the culture of middle-class life and consumerism. By 1960, almost all American families owned a TV set, and television replaced newspapers as the most common informati ...
... of American freedom. Americans now happily accumulated debt in order to maintain a consumer lifestyle. Television especially spread the culture of middle-class life and consumerism. By 1960, almost all American families owned a TV set, and television replaced newspapers as the most common informati ...
Calvert, De León, Cantrell, p. 159.
... people to executive and judicial posts) 4. attempted to keep the railroads from plundering the state’s most valuable asset (its public lands) by prohibiting land grants for internal improvements ...
... people to executive and judicial posts) 4. attempted to keep the railroads from plundering the state’s most valuable asset (its public lands) by prohibiting land grants for internal improvements ...
Affirmative Action
... • Jim Crow laws, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. • The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song. • The Supreme Court ruling in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson that separ ...
... • Jim Crow laws, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. • The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song. • The Supreme Court ruling in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson that separ ...
10 Great Men and Women Who Fought For Freedom, Justice and
... University School of Law and graduated magna cum laude in 1933. After law school Marshall went to work for the NAACP and later became their full time legal counsel. Over the following decades he devoted his time to fighting cases of racism. His most famous case was the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown ...
... University School of Law and graduated magna cum laude in 1933. After law school Marshall went to work for the NAACP and later became their full time legal counsel. Over the following decades he devoted his time to fighting cases of racism. His most famous case was the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown ...
After Dr. King`s death the civil rights began to slow down
... In the south, African Americans were living in a “whites only” world. Since 1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had been fighting against Southern segregation in the Courts In1942 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded by white & African American pacif ...
... In the south, African Americans were living in a “whites only” world. Since 1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had been fighting against Southern segregation in the Courts In1942 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded by white & African American pacif ...
Daily Quote &Question (DQ ) “
... -Brown v. Board of Education (1954) called for desegregation of schools -In 1957 the NAACP registered 9 black students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High -Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to try and block the students from entering -President E ...
... -Brown v. Board of Education (1954) called for desegregation of schools -In 1957 the NAACP registered 9 black students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High -Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to try and block the students from entering -President E ...
Federal Civil Rights Policy Summary and Overview
... helped draft state constitutions, and supported new comprehensive programs for state education in the South. The Enforcement Act of 1870: This act stated that all citizens otherwise qualified to vote in any election should not be denied the vote because of race. States could set up prerequisites for ...
... helped draft state constitutions, and supported new comprehensive programs for state education in the South. The Enforcement Act of 1870: This act stated that all citizens otherwise qualified to vote in any election should not be denied the vote because of race. States could set up prerequisites for ...
Reconstruction Era Ch 23 - Rosedale Union School District
... 23.2 Presidential Reconstruction President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan stated former Confederate states could rejoin the Union once it had written a new state constitution, Elected a new state government, and repealed its act of secession, canceled war debts and ratified the thirteenth ame ...
... 23.2 Presidential Reconstruction President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan stated former Confederate states could rejoin the Union once it had written a new state constitution, Elected a new state government, and repealed its act of secession, canceled war debts and ratified the thirteenth ame ...
VS 9b: The Civil Rights Movement
... abolishment (doing away with) of racial ____________________ ( the ending of segregation) 2. ___________________ is the full _______________ of all __________ in the use of public facilities (Everyone is allowed to use any public building. All races are treated equally.) ...
... abolishment (doing away with) of racial ____________________ ( the ending of segregation) 2. ___________________ is the full _______________ of all __________ in the use of public facilities (Everyone is allowed to use any public building. All races are treated equally.) ...
Chapter 5
... – states cannot abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens – all persons (whether or not they are citizens) are entitled to due process – all persons are entitled to equal protection ...
... – states cannot abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens – all persons (whether or not they are citizens) are entitled to due process – all persons are entitled to equal protection ...
Civil Rights Packet Review
... fire hoses, cattle prods, and attack dogs. These tactics were widely publicized in the media and helped gain sympathy and support for the civil rights movement. Allan Bakke- A white student that used the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to get in to college, claiming that affirmative action was "reverse dis ...
... fire hoses, cattle prods, and attack dogs. These tactics were widely publicized in the media and helped gain sympathy and support for the civil rights movement. Allan Bakke- A white student that used the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to get in to college, claiming that affirmative action was "reverse dis ...
Results of Reconstruction
... subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, ...
... subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, ...
The Civil Rights Movement
... their right to equal protection under the law. •Morgan V. Virginia that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional. •Sweatt V. Painter that state law schools had to admit qualified African American applicants, even if parallel black law schools existed. ...
... their right to equal protection under the law. •Morgan V. Virginia that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional. •Sweatt V. Painter that state law schools had to admit qualified African American applicants, even if parallel black law schools existed. ...
Legal Challenges to Separate But Equal
... northern states were somewhat better, though up to 1910 only ten percent of African Americans lived in the North. Segregated facilities were not as common in the North, but African Americans were usually denied entrance to the best hotels and restaurants. African Americans were usually free to vote ...
... northern states were somewhat better, though up to 1910 only ten percent of African Americans lived in the North. Segregated facilities were not as common in the North, but African Americans were usually denied entrance to the best hotels and restaurants. African Americans were usually free to vote ...
Civil Rights Movement
... about one of the Civil Rights events Your skit must be written as if you were a part of it It must include 5 facts about the event Perform the skit in front of the class ...
... about one of the Civil Rights events Your skit must be written as if you were a part of it It must include 5 facts about the event Perform the skit in front of the class ...
Baby Boomers and Civil Rights Movement
... jailed for sitting in the “white” car of the East Louisiana Railroad Company after identifying himself as black, in response to Louisiana passing the Separate Car Act Plessy’s case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where his lawyer argued that separate cars violated the 13th and 14th amendments ...
... jailed for sitting in the “white” car of the East Louisiana Railroad Company after identifying himself as black, in response to Louisiana passing the Separate Car Act Plessy’s case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where his lawyer argued that separate cars violated the 13th and 14th amendments ...
Harlem Renaissance Notes Progressive Era • Progressive
... Believed in the “talented tenth” who would use their skill to pursue civil rights? He and other political liberals formed the NAACP. The NAACP wanted to end racial discrimination and to obtain voting rights. They faced poverty, discrimination, and segregation. Many soldiers returned home from World ...
... Believed in the “talented tenth” who would use their skill to pursue civil rights? He and other political liberals formed the NAACP. The NAACP wanted to end racial discrimination and to obtain voting rights. They faced poverty, discrimination, and segregation. Many soldiers returned home from World ...
HistoryofSeparatebutEqual
... In 1896, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Justice Henry Brown of Michigan delivered the majority opinion, which sustained the constitutionality of Louisiana’s Jim Crow law. In part, he said: “We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in th ...
... In 1896, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Justice Henry Brown of Michigan delivered the majority opinion, which sustained the constitutionality of Louisiana’s Jim Crow law. In part, he said: “We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in th ...
The Civil Rights Movements
... • Nation was shocked to see images of widespread violence • The protest worked!! – Mounting pressure from all over the U.S. forced city and state officials to change – the city of Birmingham was desegregated. ...
... • Nation was shocked to see images of widespread violence • The protest worked!! – Mounting pressure from all over the U.S. forced city and state officials to change – the city of Birmingham was desegregated. ...