Jim Crow Era

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Across
  1. 1. A law exempting voters from tests and taxes if their grandfathers could vote
  2. 4. Pushed leaders to form the NAACP in 1909
  3. 5. a period from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s where laws were made to enforce racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans.
  4. 6. court case in which upheld "separate but equal."
  5. 7. Truth teller that wrote the first full history of African Americans
  6. 9. Belief that focusing on the top Black leaders would benefit all Black Americans
  7. 11. laws that acted as a system of control that dictated the daily life of african americans and treated them as lesser
  8. 13. A fee required to vote, designed to exclude poor Black and White voters from participating in elections.
  9. 17. Separation of people by race in daily life
  10. 19. dangerous all-white towns at night
  11. 21. First Black woman millionaire who rose from cotton fields to running her own company
  12. 22. Black and White activists that chose the courtroom as their battlefield.
  13. 23. Believed in demanding for civil rights now, not later
  14. 24. Unfair reading and writing tests used to prevent Black voters from casting ballots
  15. 25. Became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world and sparked riots with his victories over white opponents
Down
  1. 2. banned interracial marriage
  2. 3. Du Bois and 29 Black leaders who met and called for strong protest against racism and discrimination.
  3. 8. Revealed that money and power were the real reasons behind lynching African Americans
  4. 10. this guaranteed voting rights of African American men.
  5. 12. A system of laws and tactics in the South that used different techniques to stop Black people from voting
  6. 14. Former slave and one of the first Black women to earn a Doctorate's degree
  7. 15. The name for the time period in 1919 that saw widespread racial violence across America
  8. 16. One of the first nationally recognized African American poets and novelists.
  9. 18. Accommodationist that believed Black Americans should earn respect through work and success.
  10. 20. Greenwood District in Tulsa; A successful Black community that included businesses, theaters, and banks that was destroyed in the Tulsa Race Massacre