Bourbon Triumvirate
This confederate General and future GA politician was wounded 5 times at the Battle of Antietam.
Who is John B Gordon?
Was considered the Voice of the New South.
Who was Henry Grady?
Prejudice against Jews.
What is anti-semitism?
Laws that would lead to the Jim Crow laws
What were Black Codes?
Terror Group that would reform on Stone Mountain, after Leo Frank lynching.
Who is the KKK?
He was the Governor of Georgia during the Civil War
Who was Joseph Brown?
Henry Grady was a promoter and key organizer of this industrial event held 3 times in Atlanta in late 1800s.
What was the International Cotton Exposition?
Wrote a song about Mary Phagan and performed it on the Georgia state Capitol steps
Who was "Fiddlin" John Carson?
Made separate but equal the new "law of the land" regarding segration
What was Plessy v Ferguson.
Was newspaper editor for the Atlanta Constitution and advocate for a New South.
Who was Henry Grady?
Who was Alfred Colquitt?
Politician who championed the small farmers (white and black).
Who was Tom Watson?
Published an antisemitic rant about Leo Frank in the publication, The Jeffersonian.
Who was Tom Watson?
After witnessing the Atlanta Race Massacre as a young boy, became head of the NAACP and a champion for civil rights.
Who was Walter White?
Heny Grady supported the founding of what educational institution geared toward vocational and industrial education?
What is Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech)?
The new economic vision for Georgia under the Bourbon Triumvirate.
What is industrialization?
Service that provided mail delivery to farmers across Georgia.
What was Rural Free Delivery (RFD)?
Formed in the wake of the Frank trial to combat bigotry and antisemitism.
What is the Anti-defamation League?
Reading and logic questions used by poll workers to prevent African Americans from voting.
What were literacy tests?
Designed to showcase Georgia Industries and attract Northern investment into the state.
What was the International Cotton Exposition?
A system supported by the Bourbon Triumvirate, that allowed prisoners to be leased to business owners (farmers, factories, railroads, mining and other industries)
What is the convict lease system?
Was criticized by WEB Dubois for his speech to the International Cotton Exposition on civil rights and race relations
Who was Booker T Washington?
Prominent business leaders from Marietta, which would later revive the KKK.
Who were the Knights of Mary Phagan?
Exemption from poll taxes, literacy tests and other voting restrictions, used in many southern states to allow whites to vote.
Political party and movement focused on small farmers.`
What was the Populist party?