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6 Cards in this Set
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Accommodation
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Doctrine preached by Booker T. Washington calling for southern blacks to forget about racial equality, to accommodate themselves to the south's racist social order, and to learn skills and trades to support themselves.
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Atlanta Compromise
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Speaking in Atlanta in 1895, Washington propounded the doctrine of accommodation, which later became known as the "Atlanta Compromise"
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Brown, Henry Billings
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Justice of the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Feerguson (1896), who spoke for the majority in ruling that "if one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane"
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Brownsville "Riot"
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Three companies of the black Twenty-Fifth Regiment of the U.S. Army allegedly rioted in Brownsville, Texas in 1906 after some of the soldiers had retaliated against whites for racial insults. The charges were unproved, but President Theodore Roosevelt"arbitrarily" discharged the three companies in question.
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Buchanan v. Warley (1917)
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The United States Supreme Court unanimously held that "all citizens of the United States shall have the same right in every state and territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property." See also Corrigan v. Buckley.
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Corrigan v. Buckey
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The Buchanan v. Warley decision resulted in "a spate of private restrictive covenants
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