Disenfranchisement
Required voters to pay a tax / fee in order to vote
What is Poll Tax?
3 powerful politicians who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years.
What is the Bourbon Triumvirate?
Important Civil Rights activist who pushed for African Americans to demand equality quickly
Who was W.E.B DuBois?
Riot in Atlanta caused by economic competition and false newspaper accounts
What was the Atlanta Race Riot?
Voters were required to pass a reading or writing test to vote.
What is a Literacy Test?
Lawyer and leader of the Populist Party
Who is Tom Watson?
Educator who promoted the idea that African Americans should improve through hard work and wait for the end of segregation
Who was Booker T. Washington?
Events held in Atlanta to show the state's progress towards industrialism
What was the International Cotton Exposition?
Laws created by state legislatures to deny African American's rights
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Editor of the Atlanta Journal, a supporter of the "New South Era", and brought the Cotton Expo to Atlanta
Who is Henry Grady?
Born a slave, left home with little money, opened three barber shops and Atlanta Life Insurance Company, was the wealthiest African American when he died
Who was Alonzo Herndon?
Reform that brought free daily mail delivery to rural areas across Georgia.
What is the Rural Free Delivery Bill?
Supreme Court Case ruling that legalized racial segregation as long as the facilities were "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
The political party that started as the Farmers' Alliance. Represented farmers and the "common man". Wanted the South to stay the way it had been.
What is the Populist Party?
Jewish man who was accused of the murder of a 13 year old Mary Phagan and was lynched in Marietta
Who was Leo Frank?
Name of white supremacy group that lynched Leo Frank and established the modern KKK in Georgia
Who were the Knights of Mary Phagan?