THE COLOR LINE

PLESSY VS. FERGUSON

• Supreme Court case that ruled seperate
• but not equal constitutional.
• Affected schools,trains, hotels and every
• other public facility.

JIM CROW LAWS

• Racial segregation laws
• enacted after the Reconstruction period
• in the Southern part of the United States.
• Enforced until 1965.

W.E.B. DU BOIS

• Helped found NAACP.
• Winning equality was in voting, not skills.
• Voting would help gain political influences.

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

• Started Tuskegee Intitute.
• Accept the Jim Crow Laws.
• Economic success over racial equality.

KKK

• Ku Klux Klan
• Violent towards the African Americans

SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

LYNCHING

SUNDOWN TOWNS

• Cities, towns, and communities in the US
• that were purposely all-white.