Assignment:
Inventory at least two (2) legal setbacks African-Americans faced between the years 1877-1896. Examine the considerable impact of the legal decisions in question on the lives of African-Americans. Next, illustrate at least two (2) methods in which African-Americans flourished in the face of legal setbacks, and determine the degree to which such methods proved substantial in the fight against segregation. Provide a rationale for your response.
Articles
"Somewhere" in the Nadir of African American History, 1890-1920
The Booker T. Washington Era
Overview
Chapter most relevant to discussion- deals with methods to disenfranchise black voters, grandfather clause how/where/why segregation began, jim crow, racial etiquette, violence, riots, black migration from south, exodusters
Chapter deals with social Darwinism, educations and schools, church and religion, discrimination in the army, treatment of black professionals in law/medicine music sports