Segregation+&+Civil+Rights

=Unit 9 - January 13 - February 4th, 2011 (6 days)=

1) What were Jim Crow laws, and how did they politically oppress African Americans?

2) What was the impact of Plessy v. Fergesun?

3) How was sharecropping used by White interests inthe South to economically oppress African Americans"

4) What other groups in America (c.1860 - present) experienced hatred, predjudice, racism, and exclusion?

5) Explain the message or role different African Americans played in the leadership of their people friom Segrgation to Civil Rights.
 * Frederick Douglass
 * Booker T. Washington
 * WEB DuBois
 * Marcus Garvey
 * Martin Luther King Jr.
 * Rosa Parks
 * Malcolm X

6) What was the significance of the following legislation and US Supreme Court Cases, and organizations?
 * Civil Rights Act, 1875
 * Plessy v. Ferguson
 * Brown v. Board of Education
 * Tuskegee Institute
 * NAACP
 * Civil Rights Act, 1964
 * Voting Rights Act, 1965
 * Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee