After the Civil War In the years right after the Civil War freedmen former slaves were able to vote and participate in government thanks to the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments However After the Civil War ID: 620521
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African Americans and the Gilded AgeSlide2
After the Civil War…
In the years right after the Civil War, freedmen (former slaves) were able to vote and participate in government, thanks to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
However…..Slide3
After the Civil War
The federal government had been protecting these rights, but in 1877,
Rutherford B. Hayes
became president and ended Reconstruction. All of a sudden, there was
no one to enforce the new laws and amendment
s and no authority to punish those who treated blacks unfairly.
From
then on, people worked to
undermine
efforts at equality, and states passed laws that greatly restricted the rights and freedoms of blacks living in the South (and the North!). Slide4
Segregation
By the 1870s, most southern states adopted laws known as
Black
Codes (JIM CROW LAWS)creating a legal form of segregation.
Segregation
is when people are separated by race.
These
codes limited the rights and freedoms of black people. Northern states varied in the way they accepted the new arrivals, but segregation was common all over the nation. Slide5
Segregation and the Right to Vote
One of the main rights that was taken away from
blacks
in the South by loopholes in the nation’s laws was the right to vote.(15
th
amendment)Slide6
No Vote?
Some of the ways that southern states would deny African Americans their right to vote was to:
Have a
poll taxHave a poll testHave a grandfather clause
Have a white primarySlide7
Rise of Jim Crow
Segregation in the South was enforced by laws designed to prevent African Americans from exercising their equal rights which were known as
“
Jim Crow” laws.Slide8
Legalization of segregation
The Supreme Court case that legalized segregation was the case of
“
Plessy vs. Ferguson”.
Plessy
v. Ferguson was the Supreme Court case that legalized segregation and established the principle of
“
separate but equal”.Slide9Slide10Slide11Slide12
Rise of change
The African American, who believed the way to stop discrimination was for African American’s to concentrate on
economic goals
rather that political goals was Booker T. Washington.
He wanted to strengthen the race from the inside
He
believed economic security would lead to greater civil rights and better race relations.
Started the Tuskegee InstituteSlide13
Rise of Change
Believed
that the only way
Blacks would achieve full equality was to get a good education was W.E.B DuBois
.
He
believed that the only way black Americans could gain civil rights was through
protest and activism
.
He
disagreed with Washington’s desire to earn respect of whites first and hope that rights would follow. Slide14
NAACP
The organization created in 1909 that worked to improve living conditions for African Americans was the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
, better known as the NAACP.Founded by W.E.B Du Bois