White southerners implemented a series of discriminatory practices to disenfranchise African Americans and enforce Jim Crow segregation laws after the Reconstruction era. They introduced literacy tests, poll taxes, and understanding clauses, which were designed to circumvent the 15th Amendment and effectively disenfranchise black voters. Additionally, violence and intimidation from groups like the Ku Klux Klan further suppressed African American participation in elections. These measures institutionalized racial segregation and inequality throughout the South.
Du Bois believed that African Americans should not accept segregation.
Segregation, segregation, segregation, and segregation
Dubois believed that African Americans should not accept segregation
Booker T. Washington argued that African Americans should accommodate themselves to segregation and focus on vocational education.
Most African Americans had not learned to read while they were slaves.
Du Bois believed that African Americans should not accept segregation.
They white southerners kept African Americans from political power is by creating Black codes
Segregation, segregation, segregation, and segregation
Radical white southerners did everything in their power to oppose rights for African Americans. Namely, the white southerners would African Americans to take tests and pay outrageous fees in order to vote.
african americans
Why don't African Americans become simply Americans. Is there benefit to their self segregation?
Du Bois believed that african americans should not accept segregation
Dubois believed that African Americans should not accept segregation
Booker T. Washington argued that African Americans should accommodate themselves to segregation and focus on vocational education.
Most African Americans had not learned to read while they were slaves
It separated blacks to enter better schools like public schools
Most African Americans had not learned to read while they were slaves.