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Jim Crow Law's - Answers-complex system that developed to insure white supremacy by white southerners after Reconstruction until 1965 which included mandating racial segregation in public facilities Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - Answers-Supreme Court ruling that "separate but equal" facilities for different races are not unconstitutional. This ruling opened the door to 75 years of state-sanctioned segregation in the south. Disenfranchisement - Answers-southern states sought ways to prevent African Americans from voting by instituting poll taxes, literacy tests, early registration requirements, and all white primary. Also, in 1908, required voters to be able to read and interpret any part of the Constitution Lynching - Answers-used to keep African Americans in their "proper place," Georgia led nation between 1899 and 1918 Booker T. Washington - Answers-former slave and founder of Tuskeegee Institute, advocated idea of black self-help, best path of advancement for African-Americans was economic prosperity on their own to gain respect of whites, known as "Atlanta Compromise