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| W.E.B. Du Bois | The first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard in 1895. |
| Booker T. Washington | Believed that racism would end once African Americans aquired useful labor skills. |
| Thomas Eakins | An American artist who began to embrace realism, an artistic school that aimed at portraying real life even in its grittier forms. |
| Mark Twain | A novelist who inspired a host of other young authors when he declared his independence of "literature and all that bosh." |
| Ida B. Wells | Refused to accept the system of segregation and discrimination which prevented equal access to schools, jobs, and housing. |
| literacy test | A reading test formerly used in some Southern states to prevent African Americans from voting. |
| poll tax | An annual tax that formerly had to be paid in some Southern states by anyone wishing to vote. |
| grandfather clause | A provision that exempts certain people from a law on the basis of previously existing circumstances. |
| Jim Crow laws | Laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to seperate white and black people in pubic and private facilities. |
| Segregation | The seperation of people on the basis of race. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | A court case that ruled that the separation of races in public accomodations was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| debt peonage | A system in which workers are bound in servitude until their debts are paid. |
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