Chapter 15. Institutionalized Segregation

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 American’s 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 government could be formed.

Sharecropping

Landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops

Ku Klux Klan

Founded ex-confederate soldiers, used acts of terrorism, murder, lynching, arson, rape, and bombings to prevent granting civil rights to African Americans

“Jim Crow” Laws

Forced African Americans to use separate public facilities

Segregation

Separation of the races

Plessy v. Ferguson

The supreme court case which ruled that segregation was not discriminatory (did not violate black civil rights under the Fourteenth Amendment) provided that blacks received accommodations equal to those white people