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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