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8.3 Segregation and Dicrimination

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Ida B. WellsA leader in the movement to end lynching African-Americans.
poll taxAn annual tax that had to be paid before qulifying to vote.
grandfather clauseEven if a man failed a literact test or could not afford a poll tax, he could vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote before 1/1/1867.
segregationLaws seperating black and white people in public facilities.
Jim Crow LawsLaws that enforced segregation.
Plessy v. FergusonThe Supreme Court ruling that separation of rces in public accomadations was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
debt peonageA system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to an employer.


Pearland High School
Pearland, TX

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