Segregation and Accommodation

Question 1

Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute eventually

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grew from a small school into a university.

Question 2

In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, Supreme Court justices claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect

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social rights.

Question 3

Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery: An Autobiography.“Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded.” How does this quotation relate to Washington's theory of accommodation?

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He believed that in a merit-based society, hard work and patience would lead to racial equality.

Question 4

Read the quotation from Justice John Marshall Harlan in his Plessy v. Ferguson dissent in 1896.“Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” The views Harlan expressed in this quotation were

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later adopted by the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes Booker T. Washington?

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a civil rights leader who was born into slavery and later worked to achieve racial equality

Question 6

Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech."In the great leap from slavery to freedom...the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands...we shall prosper...as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor."According to this quotation, Washington believed that

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hard work had its own kind of dignity.

Question 7

Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech.“[P]rogress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.” In this quotation, Washington is expressing his view that

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the government cannot legislate equality.

Question 8

Jim Crow laws were a legalized system of

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discrimination against African Americans.

Question 9

During the Jim Crow era, southern states imposed poll taxes and literacy tests in order to

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prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

Question 10

Booker T. Washington believed that the best strategy to end racial segregation was for African Americans to

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adapt to it as they worked to gain equality.

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