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=Period 6=

The Problem(s)

 * Segregation affected African Americans from the time they were born until the time they were buried.
 * Jim Crow Laws went into effect. Jim Crow laws are laws that were anti- African American.
 * Lynching was still a form of entertainment for white people.
 * Lynching was probably one of the biggest racial problems during this time period. This was the putting to death (usually by hanging) of an individual by a mob under the pretense of administering justice. The vast majority of lynching victims were African-American.
 * The ant-lynching laws were never passed by Congress, and lynching continued to be a form of entertainment for white people.


 * The NAACP pushed memebers of Congress to support the African Americans.
 * Some African Americans took matter into their own hands by making petitions and stuff like that.
 * The Niagara movement was a series of conferences on racial questions and problems in the United States.
 * Booker T. Washington was an African American spokesperson who also taught African American education at the Tuskegee Institute.
 * W.E.B. Du Bois was an African American that devoted much of his life struggling for the equality of African Americans and all colored people.

The Images

 * [[image:http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Images/DBImages/2942/294230wt.jpg width="263" height="233" link="http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/library/searches/searchdisplay.aspx?fulltext=lynching&nav=rlist&specialtopicid=-1&relateddisplay=true&entryid=294230&issublink=true&categorytypeid=2"]] || This is a picture of people on strike supporting tthe anti-lynching movement. ||
 * This is Ida Wells who was the antilynching crusader and the founder of the African-American women's club movement || [[image:http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Images/DBImages/2708/270874wt.jpg width="227" height="250" link="http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/library/searches/searchdisplay.aspx?fulltext=lynching&nav=rlist&specialtopicid=-1&relateddisplay=true&entryid=270874&issublink=true&categorytypeid=2"]] ||

The Primary Sources

 * "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line-the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea." -W.E.B. Du Bois

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." -Booker T. Washington

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships." -W.E.B. Du Bois

The Citations
Auther Unknown, "Race Relations in the Progressive Era ." __ABC - CLIO__. 2007. ABC - CLIO. 22 Feb 2007 .