Chapter 15 institutionalized segregation

Cottrill

institutionalized racism

governmental organizations, schools, banks, and courts of law - giving negative treatment to a group of people based on their race

black codes

restricted African Americans freedom

14th Amendment

Granted full U.S. citizenship to all former slaves

reconstruction act 

established military rule over all of the confederate states until new governments could be formed 

sharecropping

landowner allows a tent to use the land in return for a share of the crops

Ku Klux Klan

founded by ex confederate soldiers, used acts of terrorism, murder, lynching, arson, rape, and bombings to prevent granting civil rights to AF - AM

“Jim Crow” laws 

forced AF - AM to use separate public facilities 

segregation 

separation of the races 

Plessy v. Ferguson

The supreme court case which ruled that segregation was not discriminatory