Transcript AFRICAN AMERICANS MOVE NORTH - AHHS Support for Student

AFRICAN AMERICANS
MOVE NORTH
NAACP – National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
1) African Americans faced
DISCRIMINATION
_____________________
and
_______________.
VIOLENCE
In the 1880s and 1890s, many
AFRICAN
AMERICANS
______________
to the North
2) African Americans faced serious
PROBLEMS
__________________.
SEGREGATION or
The South passed __________________
“___________________”
laws that kept the
JIM CROW
races apart.
V. FERGUSON
One such law was the PLESSY
__________________________
Supreme Court case.
This court case announced that
SEPARATE BUT EQUAL
“_____________________________”
facilities were legal as long as both white and blacks
EQUALITY
had “_________________”
15th
Another law was created against the ________
Amendment – several
Southern states prohibited black from voting:
POLL TAX
1. ____________
(Tax paid in order to vote)
LITERACY TEST
2. __________________
(A reading test)
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
3. ______________________
– (If your
grandfather could vote, then you could
vote)
Those who protested were either
_____________
or ________________.
BEATEN
LYNCHED
3) There were few ________,
poor
JOBS
_____________,
and violence.
SCHOOLS
This made blacks look to the _______
NORTH
200,000
Between 1890 and 1900, ___________
African Americans “migrated” to the
North from the South
1 million +
By 1920, _____________
African
Americans lived in cities like Detroit,
New York and Chicago
This had set in motion the
“_____________________
GREAT MIGRATION” when more than
6 million African Americans moved to the
North between 1910 and 1930
RACISM
4) In the north, they still faced _________
DISCRIMINATION
and _____________________
5) Other problems:
BUSINESS
1) ___________
owners refused to
hire them
2) If hired, they were given the
WORST
___________
jobs
3) They could not live in
NEIGHBORHOODS
_________________
where
whites lived
6) Violence broke out in 1919 in
CHICAGO
______________
- mobs of African
Americans and whites fought each
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other and _____
were killed
7) Blacks opened colleges –
HOWARD
UNIVERSITY (1867)
________________
HAMPTON
INSTITUTE
________________
(1868)
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE (1881)
________________
(founded by Booker T. Washington)
8) In 1905, ________________
W.E.B. DuBois
and
numerous others went to Niagara Falls,
Canada to protest treatment of African
Americans
9) In 1909, the NAACP or the
National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People
____________________________________,
started. It fought for equal rights for blacks
and against racism in jobs, housing and
education.
VOCABULARY
Migration - a movement of people within a
country or area
Racism – feelings against people because of
race (and skin color)
Plessy vs. Ferguson – landmark Supreme Court
case known as the “separate but equal”
doctrine in which whites and blacks may be
separated as long as blacks receive
“separate but equal” access to public facilities