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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:Colette
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Site One Title
Any facts that you find important: Plessy was 7/8 white and 1/8 black and looked white.

Who was Plessy? The plantiff in the case.

What was his complaint? The segregation law violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.

How did the Supreme Court rule? The court ruled that the 14th amendment only included political rights not social rights.

Was it unanimous? No.

How did that ruling set up the conditions for Jim Crow laws to be enacted and enforced? It Constitutionalized segragation which made it easier for black people's rights to be taken away.

Personal reactions of group members: Kind of shocking becasue we know that it is not right and why would they care so much about something silly like skin color? Return to Webquest

Site Two Title
Timeline: Any facts that you find important: - A group of white men made themselves look like black men put on a performance in New York City, they became very popular and performed many other places. They imitated African song and dance. -The Jim Crow laws were passed in the late 1800s, many African Americans moved from rural ares to cities. -1833 the Supreme Court found the civil rights act unconstitutional. -By 1914 every southern state passed laws that segregated black and white living. -1954 Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional.

Personal reactions of group members: Odd that they were first okay with no segregation but then they changed completly when the Jim Crow laws came. Return to Webquest

Site Three Title
Any facts that you find important: -Restaurants: Blacks and Whites are not allowed to be served in the same room at a restaurant. -Intermarriage: All marriages between a white person and a black person is not permitted, even a black poerson of descent to the fourth generation. - Hospital entererces: All colored and white people had to enter the hospital from different doors

Personal reactions of group members: -Restaurants: I feel like it would be very difficult because you have to go out of your way to build another room so you can serve all your costumers. The only time it wouldn't bother me so much is if I were the one being served, black or white, as long as there was a place for both. I would hate it if I were a shop owner or waitress, though. -Intermarriage: I think its such a ridiculous law because I believe people should marry whoever they want to. It's their personal choice. It bothers me that there was such a long time period in America that people were so racist and that people weren't allowed to be with whoever they wanted. -Hospital enterences: That would make me extremly annoyed and is a compleate waste of time and energy, and what about an energency

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Site Four Title
Name Ida B Wells

Date of birth July 16, 1862

Place of origin Holly Springs, Mississippi

Major cause this person fought for Anti-lynching

Major accomplishments Started a Newspaper to get out her thoughts about lynching, created pamphlets talking about lynching. Helped start the National Society of Colored Women.

Any additional facts that you find important: Married Ferdinand Barnett and attorney

Personal reactions of group members to this person: It's pretty awesome that she was black AND a woman yet still had a very big impact on the civil rights movement. Return to Webquest

Site Five Title
Name Olivia Cherry

Date of birth Unknown Place of origin Gregory Blvd. Major cause this person fought for The rights of workers. Major accomplishments She got her pay for the job she did. Any additional facts that you find important: The man she worked for called her Suzie even when he knew that her name was Olivia. Personal reactions of group members to this person: It was really unfair that they called her by the wrong name and really brave of her to stand up for that and black workers' rights.

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Site Six Title
When did this event occur? In 1908

What was the incident that started the riot? Clergy Ballard had his house broken into and saw an intruder in his daughter's bed so he chased after him and the intruder slit his throat, he died. Mabel Hallam was assaulted by her black friend. The people who comitted the offenses were put in jail and later a great mob came to take them out of jail and give them to the people to have 'justice'.

What happened to those responsible for starting the riot (if anything)? There was only one conviction for a man who stole a saber from a guard but otherwise no one was punished.

Any additional facts that you find important: -The mob killed a black man and destroyed his barber shop because he hand a white wife. -The mob destroyed $ 200,000 worth of property.

Personal reactions of group members to this person: Shocked that most of the mob didn't face charges. Also that the woman made up the whole story about the black man raping her. Return to Webquest

Site Seven Title
Cut and paste Picture your group has chosen.



Answer the questions from the [|Visual Literacy Guide] 1. Find an interesting picture and look at it for two minutes. If that is the best service for colored is this than how good is the best service for whites? But the building doesn't seem bad. There is a sign that says, "Colored only." A couple black men are standing around the entrance. Clothes are hanging from awning. The sidewalk is uneven, a lot of traffic, it looks normal except for the Colored only sign.

2. Write a narrative caption about what the picture means. The Picture made by Marion Post Wolcott, to capture the way things were in this society? October, 1939. Memphis, Tennessee. A scene from the poor? side of town.

3. Finalize the caption They agreed with us.

Any additional facts that you find important: There were no white people around.

Personal reactions of group members to this person: It's good to learn about this stuff to try and learn about the time period more. It is sort of easy to understand why most white people didn't understand that their property was 'equal' because no one went to the other public buildings as you can see from the picture. Return to Webquest

Any Additional Sites
Link other information you discover here.

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