Grade 8 Fall — The Long Road to the Civil War, the War Itself from Multiple Perspectives, Reconstruction as Betrayed Promise, and the Industrial-Gilded Age (United States 1850-1900)
History · HIS G8 hist.g8.f.his.plessy_ferguson_wells_jim_crow

Analyze Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 ('separate but equal') + Harlan dissent + Jim Crow segregation + Ida B. Wells Southern Horrors 1892 + A Red Record 1895 + EJI 2017 Lynching in America (4,400+ lynchings 1877-1950) + Booker T. Washington Atlanta Compromise 1895 + W.E.B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk 1903 + Black colleges 1865-1900 + NACW 1896

Read Plessy majority + Harlan dissent + Wells Southern Horrors + A Red Record + Washington Atlanta Address + Du Bois Souls; apply Kendi 2016 + Crenshaw 1989; document HBCU founding; refuse Booker T. vs. Du Bois simplification.

Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
50
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
  • hist.g8.s.his.civil_rights_movement_origins
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Common misconceptions
  • Treating Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 as the moment segregation began — Jim Crow segregation laws and practices were being built throughout the 1870s-1880s; Plessy 1896 was Supreme Court endorsement, not origin
  • Treating Washington-Du Bois as 'feud' — per Kendi 2016 + Gates 2019 their disagreement reflects distinct strategic positions both responding to the same Jim Crow violence

Exercise pool (3)

Diff Stem Type
2 What did Plessy v. Ferguson May 18 1896 establish? Who wrote the dissent + what was the dissent's key phrase? short answer
2 When + why was Ida B. Wells's Memphis Free Speech printing press destroyed? short answer
5 Apply Kendi 2016 Stamped from the Beginning framework (segregationist / assimilationist / antiracist) to the Washington-Du Bois... essay