Literacy Test - A test given to voters to determine whether they could read. Sometimes more difficult reading tests were given to African Americans., Poll Tax - Money one had to pay in order to vote, Grandfather Clause - A person could vote if their father or grandfather was qualified to vote before January 1, 1867, Jim Crow Laws - Laws that helped to keep Blacks and Whites separate, Racial Etiquette - A term used to describe the informal rules of conduct between Blacks and Whites. These rules reinforced white supremacy and black inferiority, De Jure Discrimination - Discrimination that exists according to the law, De Facto discrimination - Discrimination that exists in practice but not by law, Booker T. Washington - suggested that whites and blacks work together for social progress, W.E.B. du Bois - demanded full social and economic equality for African Americans., lynching - Murder by mob action without lawful trial.,

Discrimination & Segregation

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