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The Rise of the Jim Crow Era

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chicago : Britannica Educational Publishing, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (82 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781680480443
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E185 .R574 2015
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Contents:
Subject: Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws began to appear across the South. Their aim was to enforce racial segregation, consolidating power in the hands of whites. This book examines the impact of these laws and other challenges that African Americans faced between the Reconstruction period and World War I. Topics discussed include the rise of groups promoting white supremacy, laws designed to quash African-American voting, Plessey volume Ferguson, the success of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute, racially motivated riots, and the formation of the NAACP.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: The Rebirth of White Supremacy; Chapter Two: Political, Economic, and Social Disparity; Chapter Three: The Age of Booker T. Washington; Chapter Four: Violence, the Niagara Movement, and the Rise of the NAACP; Chapter Five: Black Leaders; Conclusion; Timeline; Glossary; For More Information; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.

Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws began to appear across the South. Their aim was to enforce racial segregation, consolidating power in the hands of whites. This book examines the impact of these laws and other challenges that African Americans faced between the Reconstruction period and World War I. Topics discussed include the rise of groups promoting white supremacy, laws designed to quash African-American voting, Plessey volume Ferguson, the success of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute, racially motivated riots, and the formation of the NAACP.

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