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De jure Segregation
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Segregation that is imposed by law.
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Literacy Test
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Requirement used to prevent those determined by the ruling class to be undesireable from voting.
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NAACP
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States.
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De facto Segregation
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Segregation that happens, although it is not required by law.
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Great Migration
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The movement of millions of African Americans out of the rural south from 1914-1950.
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Poll Taxes
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A specified sum of mone levied upon each person who votes.
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Booker T. Washington
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American educator, born into slaver; acquired education after emancipation and became the principal of Tuskegee Institute.
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W.E.B. Dubois
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American civil rights leader who co-founded the NAACP.
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Jim Crow Laws
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Statutes enacted by southern states, begining in the 1880s that legalized segregation between Blacks and Whites.
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