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U.S. History
Mr. Boothby
2/11/2015
The Learning Target: Sharecropping
More Black Codes/ Sharecropping/ “New South” + THE PLESSY PROJECT!
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Explain what the Plessy V. Ferguson Case is about…
Do you agree with the results of the trial? EXPLAIN!
Hint: Page 529 & 956
Silently Read Pages 530-535
The New South:
SILENTLY COMPLETE…
(With the reaction these should be close to 1 full-page Minimum!)
1. What were some of the Drawbacks to being a sharecropper after
the “Civil War” ended on April 9th, 1865?
2. Why did some business leaders want to develop southern
industry?
3. What types of southern culture were popular throughout the United
States?
REVIEW FILM/ PREPARE FOR NEXT WEEKS EXAM #1 + PROJECT #2
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THE PLESSY PROJECT: OR HISTORY CHANNEL?
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Page 535 All of the Identifies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAv00fxDVZ4
Homer Plessey was the man in the middle of the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that
confirmed the rule of "separate but equal" in U.S. law. Plessey was a light-skinned Creole
(1/8th Black) of European and African descent (Octoroon- Labeled on his Birth
Certificate). He was arrested and jailed in 1892 for sitting in a Louisiana railroad car
designated for white people only. Plessy had purposely violated an 1890 state law, called
the Separate Car law, which required that passengers on Louisiana trains be segregated
by race. Plessy claimed in court that the Separate Car law violated the 13th and 14th
amendments to the U.S. Constitution, but Louisiana Judge John Howard Ferguson found
him guilty anyhow. By 1896 the case had gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court,
which upheld the legality of Judge Ferguson's ruling by an 8-1 majority. The finding
confirmed the doctrine of "separate but equal" -- the notion that segregation was legal as
long as both blacks and whites had equal facilities. The case helped formalize legal
segregation in the United States until it was finally outlawed by the Supreme Court in
1954 in the case of Brown v. Board of Education.
Extra credit: Plessy's arrest was an orchestrated event; he was chosen to be the subject
of a legal challenge to the segregation laws because he was of mixed race -- light-skinned
enough to "pass" as a white, and dark-skinned enough to be arrested for sitting in the
white section.
Read more: Homer Plessy Biography (Activist) — Infoplease.com
http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/homerplessy.html#ixzz1D1zNDPsW
You were louder than a Prairie
Dog on the 4th of July partner!
Obstruction of Justice!
COMPLETE 20 film facts during the movie…
Each film fact must contain a complete sentence of more
than 5 words! EASY POINTS!
Watch only at home with parental guidance!
From DePaul University!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC2xqpCGDqY