The Jim Crow Era Begins
The codification of segregation and the Supreme Court's role in dismantling equality.
Key Questions
- 1How did Plessy v. Ferguson legalize the "separate but equal" doctrine?
- 2In what ways did disenfranchisement laws circumvent the 15th Amendment?
- 3How did Ida B. Wells and other activists fight against the rise of lynching?
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