After the civil was plantations were broken up into smaller plots and rented to tenant farmers. The tenant farmers paid rent but had their own tools and seeds necessary for farming. The sharecroppers had no money and gave the portion of their crops as rent but they were in constant debt. When the federal troops left the south after the civil was strict racial segregation laws known as the Jim Crow laws were placed in …showed first 75 words of 260 total…

…showed last 75 words of 260 total…Literacy test 3.<Tab/>Grandfather clauses. Booker T. Washington was an African American leader who taught others racial segregation must be accepting. He emphasized the importance of learning a skill and founded the Tuskegee Institute. W.E.B Dubois was another African American leader who spoke out against booker t. Washington and believed in equal rights for all. He emphasized the importance of education, not skills and that racial segregation must end.