Jim Crow Laws and Segregation

What were Jim Crow laws?

• White performers who dressed as Black people

• Pro-slavery laws

• Laws that improved Black rights and freedoms

• Laws that allowed for “separate but equal” accommodations

Plessy v. Ferguson established “separate but equal,” which meant that ______.

• governments could legally enforce segregation

• Black Americans must have access to the same spaces as White Americans

• Black and White Americans must have the same rights

• separate sets of laws must be written for Blacks and Whites

True or False: Booker T. Washington disagreed with W.E.B. Du Bois and believed that Black Americans should rise up in protest.

• True

• False

True or False: Most states decided that you were considered Black if you had only one great-grandparent who was Black.

• True

• False

True or False: Segregation was illegal when it came to public accommodations.

• True

• False

This African-American demanded full political, civil, and social rights to his people, so he started the NAACP

• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass

Whites Only Water Fountain .... this sign represents what laws in the South

• Racial Rules
• Lincoln Laws
• Black Codes 
• Jim Crow

Which African American leader wanted vocational [job] education?

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Frederick Douglass

• Booker T. Washington

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

• Texas vs. Johnson

• Tinker vs. DesMoines

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

Which statement about the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois is most accurate?

• They differed as to the best way that African Americans could effectively achieve equality

• Both demanded programs that would provide for immediate social equality

• Both believed that vocational training would provide the most important kind of education for African Americans

• Neither wanted the Federal Government to play a major role in protecting the civil rights of African Americans