New South
What kind of economy did the Bourbon Triumvirate want for Georgia?
Industrial (Focused on the railroad and mining industries)
These were established to promote Atlanta's rebuilding form the Civil War, its industrial capabilities and accomplishments, and to get northern investment into the city and region.
International Cotton Exposisitions
He supported the end of the Convict Lease System and was a proponent of public education for all Georgians.
Tom Watson
Taxes on Voting, most poor blacks could not pay this tax and were unable to vote. In some cases this tax was waived for poor whites.
Poll Taxes
he was born a slave but ultimately ended up owning his own company. The Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Alonzo Herndon
The Bourbon Triumvirate took advantage of this system, which leased prisoners to business owners who would provide housing, food, and clothing for them while they worked.
Convict Lease System
Civil rights activist and educator Booker T. Washington gave his famous speech at one of the International Cotton Expositions. What was the name of the speech?
Atlanta Compromise Speech
What did Tom Watson gain national notoriety for passing?
Rural Free Delivery Act (Delivery of mail to rural families)
Due to the fact that the dominate party in Georgia was the democratic Party, most of the major political decisions took place during the primary. This did not allow African Americans to vote in the important primary election.
The White Primary
W.E.B Dubois' concept of an elite group of college educated African Americans who would use their talents and position to eradicate segregation in American Society.
The Talented Tenth
Who were the three members of the Bourbon Triumvirate?
Joseph E. Brown
Alfred H. Colquitt
John B. Gordon
How did Booker T. Washington want to approach Civil Rights?
He believed that African Americans should focus on economic improvement as opposed to political and social rights.
This party supported low taxes for the poor farmer.
Populist Party
Used to prevent African Americans from voting. The education was poor in the South for poor blacks and whites. Many Georgians could not read or write to pass these tests. Some whites were "passed" by polling officials to allow them to vote. Many educated Blacks were told they failed the test and could still not vote. What were these tests called?
Literacy Tests
trial where a Northern Jewish pencil factory manager was accused of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan; found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death, his sentence was later reduced to life due to additional evidence. However, a group of men calling themselves “the Knights of Mary Phagan” took Frank out of his prison cell and lynched him in Marietta.
Leo Frank Case
Who promoted the New South as the managing editor of the Atlanta Journal?
Henry Grady
Who openly opposed Booker T. Washington?
W.E.B. Dubois
Under these laws most African Americans could not vote or serve on Juries, and were denied many of the other rights of US citizens.
Jim Crow Laws
This was used to allow some poor white citizens the opportunity to vote while continuing to deny the right to African Americans. These laws said that if a persons father was able to vote before the Civil War then they could too, without paying a poll tax or taking a literacy test.
The Grandfather Clause
hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
Anti Semitism
Inaccurate portrayal of racial relations in the South.
How did W.E.B. Dubois want to approach Civil Rights?
He was more focused on political and social rights. And pushed for them to come sooner.
What was the outcome of the Plessy V. Ferguson Case?
The court ruled in favor of the state of Louisiana based on the separate but equal doctrine. African Americans had political rights but were not required to have social rights.
This resulted in the death of at least 25 African Americans. This began when a series of local newspaper articles alleging African American males had attacked white women.
1906 Atlanta Race Riot
He helped create the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBois