Washington vs. Dubois Flashcard

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Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.

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Segregation

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What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

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Literacy Tests

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This African-American wanted the elite black "talented tenth" to be leaders in the fight for civil rights instead of jobs training.

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W.E.B. DuBois

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Which African American leader wanted blacks to fight for job training and believed that economic freedom was the goal of civil rights?

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Booker T. Washington

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After the Reconstruction Amendments were passed, this white supremacist terrorist group was created: The Southern Order, Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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Which national organization that helped fight for equal rights for African Americans?

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NAACP

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Literacy tests & poll taxes were used in the South to keep African Americans from doing what?

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voting

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What was Booker T. Washington's vision for improving the conditions of African Americans?

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Promoting trades and practical skills

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-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education

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Booker T. Washington