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Jim Crow
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laws enacted in Southern states designed to separate white and black people
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segregation
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the separation of races
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Ida B. Wells
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African-American journalist who led the flight against lynching
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the legality of segregation
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Booker T. Washington
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African-American leader who did not believe in challenging segregation
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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African-American leader who fought against segregation and for equal rights and who helped found the NAACP
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NAACP
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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literacy
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the ability to read and write
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lynch
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to kill by hanging without due process of the law
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