People/Groups Who Shaped the New South I
Known as the "Voice of the New South?"
Who was Henry Grady?
Henry Grady as the leader of the "New South" movement would be more likely to support a _____ farmer growing cotton for export or a ______ investor in Southern industry?
B. What is a Southern farmer / Northern investor
This legal act required that everything used in society be separated. (separate bathrooms, schools, water fountains, railroad cars, swimming pools, etc.)
What is segregation?
He was the 1st president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?
Who was Booker T. Washington?
Name the northern businessman who came to Atlanta, Georgia to manage the National Pencil Company and his race/religion?
Who is Leo Frank? He was Jewish.
He was the 1st African-American millionaire in Georgia. He began with a barbershop but because of his race he couldn't be serviced there.
Who is Alonzo Herndon?
New South Georgia leader (Populist) wanted to help poor farmers, both black and white, by lowering taxes for farmers?
Who was Thomas (Tom) Watson?
Atlanta newspapers printing false stories of black violence against white women caused this extreme act of racial violence.
What is the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot?
A civil rights leader was born in Massachusetts and became an economic and political science professor at Atlanta University. He is also responsible for the "Talented Tenth"?
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
A 13 year old factory worker in the National Pencil Factory, from Marietta, GA, paid very little for working long hours and assumed to have been killed by Leo Frank
Who is Mary Phagan?
A group of white supremacist political leaders who worked to improve the state of Georgia economically after the war through shared economic and political goals (Alfred H. Colquitt, Joseph E. Brown, John B. Gordon)
Who were the Bourbon Triumvirate?
A set of legal restrictions put in place by white supremacist to keep African-Americans feeling inferior and treated as a second-class citizens; named after a minstrel character.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The main underlying reason for the violence of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, and other issues between whites and African-Americans.
What is racial tension?
He believed that blacks should pursue education and learning a skill/trade to acquire economic security - he believed that economic security would come before social equality. Things will fix themselves.
What was Booker T. Washington's opinion?
Hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews
What is anti-Semitism?
To showcase the industries of the New South - Created to show the economic recovery and potential of the South after Reconstruction - Tried to get businessmen to invest money in Georgia by building factories
What was the main purpose of International Cotton Exposition?
Started off as a social group made up of farmers and poor white workers that came together to solve problems that affected farmers and eventually changed into a political group.
What is the Populist Party?
The court case made all of the other states create "Separate but equal" facilities
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
W.E.B. DuBois' plan to raise up African American leaders to pursue social and political integration (end segregation) as well as higher education (college) for 10% of the African American population?
What is the "Talented Tenth"?
The Leo Frank Case gave rise to this group after the murder of Mary Phagan because many Southern whites hated those different than them - (hated Afro. Am., but also Jews, Catholics, & immigrants) It eventually evolved into the Ku Klux Klan.
Who are the "Knights of Mary Phagan"?
A South that would develop industry/manufacturing like the North (moving away from farming as the main way to make a living)
What is the "New South"?
A bill sponsored by Tom Watson while serving in the US Congress (House of Representatives)? Hint: (so mail could be freely delivered to all)
What is the Rural Free Delivery Bill- RFD?
Three ways African Americans were disfranchised.
What are the grandfather clause, poll taxes, literacy tests?
This activist believed in action to achieve equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois ?
Revealed the anti-Semitic and anti-North feelings of many Georgians and re-energizing the KKK emerges again (hated Afro. Am., but also Jews, Catholics, & immigrants) - Poor Georgians resentful of big business and the interests of Northern transplants like Leo Frank
What did the Leo Frank case exposed about racial tension in the South?