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= Research Log = toc The recorder for your group should fill out the following log as your group works to complete this assignment. Your research log will begin once you enter the first site. Make sure you keep a detailed log; otherwise your mission will not be complete. Although the Secretary for the group is responsible for filling this in, all group members are responsible for seeing to it that this log is as accurate as possible. This is a group grade, not an individual grade.


 * 1) Log in the title of each site you visit.
 * 2) Take note of any significant facts you find at each site.
 * 3) When questions are asked about a site, make sure they are all answered.
 * 4) __Supply examples to back up your answers.__
 * 5) Note any personal reponses your group has to the site.
 * 6) __Back up any personal responses your group has with evidence from the site.__

Plessy vs. Ferguson
Plessy had bought a ticket to ride on cart on a train only for whites. He seven 7/8ths white and 1/8th black so he was arrested. He felt that his arrest went against the 13th and 14th amendments. The supreme court ruled in favor of Ferguson because the 14th amendment only goes so far; it doesn't make the two races equal. This decision was not unanimous. This ruling set up the conditions for Jim Crow laws because as long as it is separate but equal.

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Site Two Title
February 1843: The Virginian Minstrels formed their group and performed their dance. They started touring after they had gained some popularity. Late 1800s: Jim Crow laws were passed. 1883: The Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional. 1914: Every southern state passed laws to create two seperate societies. 1915: The supreme court began to intervene and the Jim Crow laws were challenged. 1954: The supreme court ruled the case Brown vs Board unconstitutional. 1960's: The civil rights movement occurred.

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Site Three Title
- a lot of the Jim Crow Laws were from Alabama - a lot of the laws are about segregating blacks from whites (blacks and whites can't be served in the same restaurant without a partition) Laws from Florida included a lot of segregation of schools and prohibited men and women of different races from being together Laws from Virginia included the separation of blacks and whites in public areas.

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Site Four Title
Ida B Wells DOB: 1862 Place of origin: Holly Springs, Mississippi Major cause this person fought for: She fought against lynching and for black rights. Major accomplishments: local co-owner and editor of //The Free Speech in Headlight,// a local black newspaper. She also wrote many pamphlets exposing white violence and lynching. Any additional facts that you find important: Her newspaper was destroyed by a mob, and she was warned never to come back because her life was in danger.

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Site Five Title
James Jones Lived thorough WWII Major cause this person fought for: soldier during in WWII but it was still segregated for the soldiers

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Site Six Title
Springfield Illinois This riot occurred in 1908. It was sparked by the white people who thought that Joe James was responsible for killing Clergy Ballard and believed another black man was responsible for another crime against a woman. These men were arrested and crowds formed outside the jail. However, the black men, not responsible for the crimes, were freed. The crowd was enraged and destroyed the town. .The people who started the riot were left unpunished.

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Site Seven Title
The picture is showing a segregated waiting area for colored people. The image shows a sign hanging off an awning attached to a building. The sign hung by a pole with two little poles holding it up, reads "COLORED waiting room". The words "waiting room" are placed in an arrow. Behind the sign is a building with a pipe going down the side. Above this building is a telephone wire with a little black bird perched upon it. The picture was taken by Esther Bubley in September of 1943. She took this picture to show the segregation of the Greyhound Bus Station. She took this picture with a camera. She was black? She wanted to show everyone segregation was bad?

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