PPT-Plessy

v Ferguson and Brown V Board of Education A history of the constitutionality of segregation in the United States Christine Glacken Essential Questions What is the historical significance of. By: Kaitlyn Cramer. Brief History. Immediately after the Civil War, segregation began to rise in the South. . http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~srussell/2004/dave/civilwar.html. The 1800’s were characterized by . v. Ferguson. Background. Louisiana railways were to “provide equal but separate accommodations for the white & colored races”. Homer . Plessy. decided to test the law; he sat in a whites only section from New Orleans to Covington, Louisiana; he refused to move when the conductor asked. “. . Government corruption encouraged the public to demand more control – some minor, some major changes to the capitalist system. Reforms affected local, state, and national government. Examples:. Business Law – Chapter 1 . Sources of Law. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 . Police arrested Homer Plessy for refusing to leave a railroad car that prohibited “colored” people. Under Louisiana law, Plessy was “colored” because he was one-eighth black. The Court ruled that the race-based “Jim Crow” laws did not violate the Constitution as long as the states proffered separate but equal treatment.. BOOK II. IMMIGRANTS. 1865-1900. 885,000-3.2 MILLION. 26 MIL.. 35% POPULATION. IMMIGRANTS. GREAT BRITAIN. 1910-2 MIL. CHILDREN. TEXTILE MILLS. 70 HRS./WEEK. .10-.20/DAY. FEMALE. WOMEN. 1880-1900. 2.6-5 MILLION. Civil Rights Movement. Emancipation Proclamation. Issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Proclaimed freedom to all slaves that lived in rebellion states (3.1 million slaves). Became a wartime goal, but did not give slaves citizenship nor outlaw slavery entirely.. Everything You Need To Know About Key Concept 6.3 To Succeed In APUSH. www.Apushreview.com. Period 6: 1865 – 1898 . Shout out to Mr. Carr and his class. Thanks for your support!. The New Curriculum. Objectives: Students will be able to…(1) define . Plessy. vs. Ferguson (2) analyze a primary . source. Homework: Chapter 16 DUE TOMORROW. Segregated Proms?? . Read the article and answer the questions at the end. . th. century. Venetria K. Patton, Ph.D.. @. DrVKPatton. The Souls of Black Folk. W.E.B. Du Bois. Biography. He was born on . February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. . In . 1895, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. APUSH - Spiconardi. “Strange Fruit”. Southern trees bear strange fruit. Blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze. Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. . SC Social Studies Standard. 8-5.4. : Summarize the policies and actions of South . Carolina’s . political leadership in implementing . discriminatory . laws that established a system of . racial . “. Separate But Equal. ”. Power point created by Robert L. Martinez. Primary Content: . The Americans. In 1892, Homer . Plessy. took a seat in the “whites only” car of a train and refused to move. He was arrested, and convicted for breaking Louisiana’s segregation law.. (1896). Everything You Need To . K. now . A. bout Plessy v. Ferguson To Succeed In APUSH. www.Apushreview.com. Key Ideas Before The Case. Reconstruction Amendments:. 13. th. Amendment. Abolished slavery. From Plessy to Brown: The African American Freedom Struggle in the 20 th century Venetria K. Patton, Ph.D. @ DrVKPatton Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington Biography Born a slave in 1856 Educated at Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute in Virginia