An American shoemaker, who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson
Who is Homer Plessy?
A case That drew attention to the dangers of a justice system influenced by racial and ethnic biases.
What is the Leo Frank case?
A phrase created by Henry Grady, he used it to describe Georgia’s moving away from an agricultural economy to an industrial one
What is the New South?
Where the International Cotton Expositions were held
Where is Atlanta, Georgia?
Tom Watson was one of the most popular but controversial people in Georgia history:
True
A group of three white Georgia men who controlled politics in the state during the 1870’s, 1880’s, and 1890’s
Who are the Bourbon Triumverate?
A Supreme Court case in 1896 that made racial segregation constitutionally legal, as long as facilities were “separate but equal”
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Southern state laws designed to prevent Blacks/African Americans from exercising their rights as citizens
What are Jim Crow Laws?
What is the Tuskegee Institute? (now Tuskegee University)
All Georgians agreed with Henry Grady
False, not all Georgians
The managing editor for the Atlanta Journal who promoted the concept of the “New South” during the late 1800’s
Who is Henry Grady?
A series of three large events (1881, 1885, 1895) created to show off Atlanta’s growth and industrial ability and to influence Northern investment to the region
What are the International Cotton Expositions?
Deprived of a right or a privilege; especially the right to vote
What is Disenfranchised?
What city have we talked about the most this standard?
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
W.E.B Du Bois was the first African American to receive a doctorate degree
True
An Atlanta businessman who went from slavery to becoming one of the most successful businessmen in Georgia
Who is Alanzo Herndon?
At least 25 Black people were killed by an angry mob of mostly unemployed White men and boys. It started as a riot because of untrue stories in newspapers about Black men attacking white women.
What is the Atlanta Race Massacre?
A person who looks out for the interest of people of the white race only, and views white people as superior to other races.
What is a white supremacist?
Where the Leo Frank Case took place.
Where is Atlanta, Georgia?
The Grandfather Clause let some poor black people vote if their fathers or grandfathers could vote before the Civil War.
False, poor whites
A Jewish man who was convicted of a murder that he didn’t commit in Atlanta, GA in 1913
Who is Leo Frank?
A group organized to oppose racial segregation and disenfranchisement who demanded equal rights immediately, not over time
What is the Niagra Movement?
An approach to civil rights encouraged by Booker T. Washington that Blacks should focus on educating themselves and improving their economic situations instead of fighting for civil rights, and that by gaining more money and position in society, civil rights would come gradually over time
What is accomodationalism?
Where Homer Plessy was from and where the case took place.
Where is Louisiana?
Nina Formby really killed Mary Phagan
False, Jim Conley