Years
The year 1877 significance.
What year does reconstruction end in the south?
A journalist and speaker who helped reintegrate the south back into the The Union.
Who is Henry Grady?
Pro business, white politicians who are celebrated in the New South.
What is a redeemer?
Between 1880 and 1890, the number of cotton mills increases from 161 to 400.
What is the textile industry?
This acts rules that segregation is legal as long as both groups are given separate but equal.
What is the Plessy v Ferguson Act?
The year 1875.
When was the Civil Rights act was created?
A journalist and activist who sued because she was denied a seat on a segregated train.
Who is Ida B Wells?
Mandates the separation of races in various public places that allows white people to rule over black people's lives.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
A company under the Duke family dominates 90% of this industry.
What is the tobacco industry?
Allows illiterate whites to vote if their grandfathers had been eligible to vote in 1867?
What is the Grandfather Clause?
The year 1896.
What year did the Supreme court case Plessey v. Ferguson take place?
born into slavery
educated at Hampton Institute
President of Tuskegee Institute
Gives the Atlanta Exposition Express speech
Who is Booker T Washington?
Allows black farmers to get credit before the planting season by promising to give up some of the harvest.
What is the Crop Lien System?
This industry surpasses the value of the cotton industry.
What is the lumber industry?
Guaranteed black people equal rights to public transportation and accommodation and other rights.
What is the Civil Rights Act?