____________________________________________________________________
3) Briefly discuss what types of racial discrimination occurred throughout the United States during the years following the end of the Civil War and through the 1960s. What were these customs or laws called? Use specific examples. Explain WHY these types of customary discrimination were so hard to battle and overcome.
Summarize the Plessy v. Ferguson decision. Explain what type of society this decision helped to create.
What African American interest group was founded in order to begin the lengthy fight for civil rights? What was the most successful long term strategy used by this group, to eventually overturn the Plessy v. Ferguson decision? (Hint: it is not demonstrations or anything like that – those occurred after the Brown decision).
Why was this tactic so successful? …show more content…
During this era, an unprecedented violence against colored people occurred.
The NAACP was the most important organization in the eradication of Jim Crow laws and the eventual guaranteed equality through the law. Charles Hamilton Houston was the brains behind the success of the NAACP. (Elwood, 1990)
CHH was a brilliant African American lawyer. Houston volunteered for duty in World War 1, but served in a segregated division. Even though he was an officer, he wasn’t protected against Jim Crow laws. He was given substandard housing, and even fended off a lynch mob while in France fighting the war. (Elwood, 1990)
This made him realize that he had to fight against the Jim Crow laws. CHH realized that the best way to fight Jim Crow was in the schools via the equal clause sanction. First, he would petition that black schools must be made absolutely identical to white schools. He was constantly working on his idea that if he made it so expensive to have it kept separate that they would have to merge schools. (Elwood,
3) Briefly discuss what types of racial discrimination occurred throughout the United States during the years following the end of the Civil War and through the 1960s. What were these customs or laws called? Use specific examples. Explain WHY these types of customary discrimination were so hard to battle and overcome.
Summarize the Plessy v. Ferguson decision. Explain what type of society this decision helped to create.
What African American interest group was founded in order to begin the lengthy fight for civil rights? What was the most successful long term strategy used by this group, to eventually overturn the Plessy v. Ferguson decision? (Hint: it is not demonstrations or anything like that – those occurred after the Brown decision).
Why was this tactic so successful? …show more content…
During this era, an unprecedented violence against colored people occurred.
The NAACP was the most important organization in the eradication of Jim Crow laws and the eventual guaranteed equality through the law. Charles Hamilton Houston was the brains behind the success of the NAACP. (Elwood, 1990)
CHH was a brilliant African American lawyer. Houston volunteered for duty in World War 1, but served in a segregated division. Even though he was an officer, he wasn’t protected against Jim Crow laws. He was given substandard housing, and even fended off a lynch mob while in France fighting the war. (Elwood, 1990)
This made him realize that he had to fight against the Jim Crow laws. CHH realized that the best way to fight Jim Crow was in the schools via the equal clause sanction. First, he would petition that black schools must be made absolutely identical to white schools. He was constantly working on his idea that if he made it so expensive to have it kept separate that they would have to merge schools. (Elwood,