Social Sciences and History / Unit 7 SSH 0636 short lesson, about 20 seconds
From Plessy to Brown
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The idea
The Thirteenth Amendment freed all enslaved people; the Fourteenth and Fifteenth granted citizenship, equal protection, and Black men's vote. Reconstruction's end brought Jim Crow. Plessy in eighteen ninety-six allowed separate but equal; Brown in nineteen fifty-four struck it down in education.
In practice
Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, white primaries.
Where people slip
The greatest gains came after nineteen forty-five: lawsuits, acts, direct action.
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