AH Racial integration

NAACP

The purpose is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination."

W.E.B Du Bois

* Prominent African American against lynching, \n segregation, and racial inequality
* Believed African Americans should embrace their african heritage
* Part of the Niagara Movement
* Advocated for racial integration

13th amendment

Abolished slavery

14th amendment

* Granted voting rights to African Americans


* Did not grant suffrage

15th amendment

Prohibited voting discrimination based on race

Black codes

laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters

Booker T. Washington

* Prominent African American against lynching, \n segregation, and racial inequality
* Wanted African Americans to better themselves before integrating with white people
* Advocated trade education

Harlem Renaissance

An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s

Marcus Garvey

* Black nationalist
* Advocated for separation of races
* Controversial figure in the African American community

Plessy v. Ferguson

* Famous court case about segregation


* “Separate but Equal”

Scottsboro Boys

nine Black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a train

Ida B. Wells

* Prominent African American against lynching, \n segregation, and racial inequality
* Fought for womens suffrage