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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.__

__Group Members__
Record who is doing each job for your group (use first names only).

Speaker: Emily Farabaugh
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Plessy vs Ferguson
Any facts that you find important: The Supreme Court found a way to edge around an amendment, and the people of America accepted it! Who was Plessy? He was a white man, but since he was 1/8 black, he was arrested for sitting in a white car. What was his complaint? His complaint was that the segregation law violated the 13th and 14th amendment. The fourteenth amendment guarantees equal protection under the law, and of this he was denied. How did the Supreme Court rule? Equality was only as far as political and civil rights, not social rights. They denied Plessy equal protection. Was it unanimous? No, the justice overruled everyone. How did that ruling set up the conditions for Jim Crow laws to be enacted and enforced? The case gave a constitutional nod to racial segregation in public places, especially in the south. Personal reactions of group members: We found the truth behind this article absolutely atrocious and inhumane. It is hard to think about what it was like back then when racism was real in America.

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Timeline: Februrary 18, 1843-A group of Minstrels mocked black people, sang a song that was inspired by Jim Crow. Late 1800s-Jim Crow Laws were passed 1883-U.S Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act to be unconstitutional. 1914-Every southern state had passed segregation laws. 1915-Jim Crow Laws were challenged by Supreme Court 1954-Brown vs Board of Education 1960s-Civil Right Movement

Facts that you find important: Some white southerners thought that the large urban black communities, which provided labor for factories, created a threat. This was a main reason why they discriminated against them.

Personal reactions of group members: We were surprised that the Civil Rights Movement took so long to occur in America, even though much of the rioting had begun almost a century before.

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Examples of Jim Crow Laws

 * NO female white nurses are not required to treat a black man. I (Selena) was aggravated by this law because that is not even " separate but equal" if you have a black man who comes in with a head trauma, and the black nurse is out-care would be refused to give to him!
 * Intermarriage is considered to be an unofficial marriage and they live together-there is a fine. Emily was particularly surprised and disgusted to see that the intermarriage law was prominent in many states. Not only was marriage to the opposite race frowned upon, it was also illegal.
 * It was illegal to bury a white man and a black man in the same ground. As a white man, you can't bury a black man, the opposite is true as well. Alexandra was sad that two dead people can't even lie in peace together-or near each other. It is a pathetic act of Americans to discriminate against black people to the extent of their deathbeds.

Jim Crow Profiles
Name: Booker T Washington Date of birth: 1856 Place of origin: Virginia Major cause this person fought for: Education Major accomplishments: He was considered the most influential black educator in the late 19, and early 20th century. He founded Tuskegee Institution which was a colored school that had a white principle. That was a major accomplishment back then,and he became a National Hero. Any additional facts that you find important: He wrote an autobiography called "Up From Slavery". He also founded the National Negro Business League in the early 1900s. Personal reactions of group members to this person: We were impressed that he was courageous and not afraid to challenge the accepted ideas of discrimination at the time.

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Jim Crow Narratives
Name: George Kenneth Butterfield Junior Date of birth: Place of origin Major cause this person fought for: Equal treatment in hospitals and care consent to black people from white doctors. Major accomplishments: None-He was just a speaker who shared a story. Any additional facts that you find important: The black doctor also refused care to the black man. Personal reactions of group members to this person: We were surprised that after several hours, the black doctor didn't give care to the patient because by today's standards-its more important to save a life than to by courteous to a white doctor.

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Springfield Illinois
When did this event occur? 1908 What was the incident that started the riot? A young, white girl was sexually assaulted while sleeping in her home-daughter of Clergy Ballard. Their home was broken into and Clergy Ballard chased the intruder out of the house. On the chase outside, the black intruder turned around killed the Clergy. What happened to those responsible for starting the riot (if anything)? There were no punishments for those who started the riot. Any additional facts that you find important: The official death total was 7-two blacks and 5 accidental whites. Property damage was in excess of $2000 dollars! Personal reactions of group members to this person: Alexandra was horrified and Emily thinks that the blacks as a population shouldn't have been punished. The single man however, should have been punished because he was just an outlier.

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Site Seven Title
media type="custom" key="22728806" a. Segregation, separate, beaten down. b. Two cars; one beaten down, and one new and shiny, a restaurant; one labeled "Colored" and the other "White", a food advertiser on the window that seemed to serve healthier fresh foods for the white, and fast food to the blacks, person in the window of the restaurant, higher priced food for the black people posted on the window. c. The white side of the window of the restaurant advertised "Hot Wieners and Hamburgers", the black side just says "Lunch", this makes me wonder if the wieners and burgers for the black people are served cold. Any additional facts that you find important: The price for the hot wiener is labeled 5 (unit of money), while the price of "Food" for the colored is labeled 25, 30, 35. I wonder if the price is really shot up that high for the Colored people, that is just sad and pathetic. What happened to separate, but EQUAL? Personal reactions of group members to this person: As a group, we were not very impressed with society for this picture. Just the fact that the white people don't even want the black people to eat the same type of food as them strikes me as odd. Why did people even care so much about that? We felt that this photo captures America before equality of the races, which is a history of America that we can not imagine, thankfully.

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Any Additional Sites
Link other information you discover here.