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Plessy v. Ferguson

 

 opened up segragation said you could be seperate but equal.

 

 plessy was jailed for sitting in a white car but he was 7/8's white

happened in louisiana and was against seperate car act

only man who opposed decision said that the constitution should be color blind

man was john harlan

said that jim crow was legal

 

 

 

 

Examples of Laws 

 in alabama no nurses were allowed to care to any black men

also in alabama black and whites were not allowed to sit together on transpotation and had ot move when a white person wanted there seat

alabama the train conductor was to assign different cars to blacks and colors

if you would marry a white women and you were ablack male you would be null and void Arizona

in georgia you were not allowed to give any white people a haircut ever

in kentucky you had to go to seperate schools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Crow Time Line

 1896 started with Plessy v. Ferguson

 1906 indians have riot

 1915 refounding of KKK

 1920 19th admendment women can vote

1924 indians given rights to vote

1942 congress started Congress of racial equality or CORE

1954 Brown v board of education overturns seperate but equal

1960 civil rights act reaffirms voting rights act for all americans

1968 martin luther king jr assainated by James earl Ray

1970 voting rights act of 1965 renewed

 

Early Civil Rights Leaders - Role Models

 

Ida B.Wells

 

- Ida B. Wells was born in Holy Springs, Mississippi in 1882 just months prior to the Emancipation to the slaves.

 

- Her parents died of Yellow Fever when she was about 14 years old and therefore she had to educate her seven brothers and sisters.

 

- Ida was a graduate from Rust College and became a teacher in Memphis in 1888.

 

- She was a journalist, anti-lynching crusader, and women's rogjts advocate.

 

- She is famous because she stood up for women's rights and stood up for what she believed in.

 

- Ida is a role model because she stood up for her rave and didn't care what anyone said about her.

 

- She is a hero because she wanted to make the world a better

 

W.E.B. Du Bois

- Founded NAACP National Association for the Advanced Colored People 

 

- Was teacher at many colleges

 

- He also was a leader for Civil Rights 

 

- Some obsticals he faced were that he was not the best public speaker and he often got in fights with Booker T. Washington

 

- had own newspaper called the crisis

 

- belived in acting

 

 Booker T washington

born April th 1856 franklin County viginia

 

Born slave and attended hampton Institute

 

He had almost no education and he founded Tuskegee Institute

 

he belived in not rocking the boat of Jim Crow he belived in getting a future and then going after Jim Crow

 

This gave him poularity with whites

 

also said to start from bottom and work your way up

 

He said to go after your dreams even if you were black

 

Tuskegee Institute tought african americans to live with jim crow it also taught then agriculture such as planting brick laying brick making etc.

 

Only went ot school for one year

 

he started as a slave so he had to get money and education very fast

 

middle name Taliaferro

 

 

Alonzo Herndon

born june 26, 1858 in walton county Ga

 

was born slave his father was his master he raped mother

 

started peddling cars to help his poor family when they were emancipated\

 

When older he opened up his own barber shop in atl

 

shop became very sucsessful

 

 

first african american millionaire

 

showed that blacks can do anything a white man can do

 

he didn't have little to any education because he was born into slavery

 

 

John Wesley Dobbs

born October 8, 1882

 

born in maretta grew up in poverty

 

formal education ended 5th grade but attended school full time

 

age 15 he moved to atlanta

 

mothers illness caused him to drop out at age 17

 

first job was shining shoes nad delivering papers

 

elected grand master of Prince Hall Masons of Georgia in 1932

 

Founded Atlanta Civic and Political League

 

co founded atlanta negro Voters leauge

 

convinced mayor WIlliam B. Hartsfeild  to hire african american police officers

 

died on day city schools were desegregated  august 30th 1961

 

MLK was one of the speakers at his funeral

 

Grandson was first African American mayor

 

Martin Luther King Jr.

was most famous for I have a Dream Speech at Lincoln memorial August 28th 1963

 

died in memphis tennesee on balcony of hotel

 

gave speech teh promised land right before death

 

CAsket now at Martin Luther King Center

 

has holiday named after him

 

respected Ghandi and tried no violence like Ghandi did

 

Married Correta Scott King and she now lays in casket with him

 

Had two children one boy one girl

 

both him and dad preached at Ebenezer Baptist Church4

 

 

 

 

 Brown v Board of education

may 17th 1954 supreme court said that schools could not segregate and was one of the most important decisions the

Supreme Court has ever made and it was funded by the NAACP Nation association for the advancedment of colored people

this was the beginng of desegregation.