VUS.8d Vocabulary

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Separate but equal

• NAACP

• Eugenics

Facilities did not have to be mixed, as long as they were the same.

• Lynching

• Separate but equal

• NAACP

• Eugenics

Believed education without equality was meaningless, formed NAACP 

• Ida B. Wells Barnett

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Dubois

Supreme Court ruling which stated that “Separate but equal” was not a violation of 14th Amendment 

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Buck v. Bell

A belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human population by discouraging reproduction encouraging reproduction.

• Lynching

• Great Migration

• NAACP

• Eugenics

Anti-lynching spokesperson, tried to involve the federal government.

• Ida B. Wells Barnett

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Dubois

The movement of African Americans north for jobs and to escape discrimination

• Lynching

• Great Migration

• NAACP

• Eugenics

Killing, usually by hanging, based on race.

• Lynching

• Great Migration

• NAACP

• Eugenics

Supreme Court ruling that the Virginia Sterilization Act was constitutional, allowing for forced sterilization

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Buck v. Bell

Believed equality = vocational education and economic success, accepted segregation

• Ida B. Wells Barnett

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Dubois