Racial Discrimantion Flashcards
Who was most known for speaking about lynching?
Ida B. Wells
Jim Crow Voting laws were meant as a way for people to get around which amendment?
15th amendment
What is a literacy test?
An unreasonable test African Americans had to take in order to vote
What is integration?
When black and whites share the same facilities
What is the grandfather clause?
A law saying you don’t have to pay the poll tax or take the literacy test if your grandfather voted
What is segregation ?
When black and whites facilities are separate
What was the outcome of Plessy v. Ferguson
The government decided that segregation was allowed if facilities were “equal”
Who was Homer Plessy?
A biracial man who sat in a whites only train car
What is enfranchisement?
Being given the right to vote
What is disenfranchisement
Losing the right to vote
