Chapter 15. Institutionalized Segregation

Institutionalized Racism

Governmental organizations, schools, banks, and carts of laws-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 un

Sharecropping

Land owner allows a tenement 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, rape, and bombings, to prevent granting civil rights to AF-AM

“Jim Crow” Laws

Forced AF-AM use separate public facilities

Segregation 

Separation of races

Plessy v Ferguson

The supreme court case which ruled that segregation was not discriminatory, did not violate back civil rights under the Fourteenth Amendment Provided that blacks received accommodations equal to those of whites.