New South MVP's
Three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years.
Bourbon Triumvirate
Born in 1856 and died in 1922
Populist politician
Supporter of farmers and the working class
Tom Watson
to deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship.
Disenfranchisement
Supreme Court ruling that legalized racial segregation as long as the facilities were equally funded; however, this was rarely the case.
Separate but Equal
a series of three large events (1881, 1885, and 1895) established to display Atlanta’s growth and industrial capabilities and to lure Northern investment to the region.
International Cotton Exposition
lawyer, writer, and politician from Georgia; he ended his career as an ardent segregationist and anti-Semite; died while serving a term as U.S. senator from Georgia.
Tom Watson
managing editor for the Atlanta Journal who promoted the concept of the “New South.” Wanted to lure Northern investors
Henry Grady
laws created by state legislatures to deny African-Americans citizenship rights.
Jim Crow Laws
practice of forcing people of different racial groups to be separate, to live apart, go to spate schools, and use separate public facilities.
Segregation
period after Reconstruction where political and community leaders in the South sought to diversify Georgia’s economy and bring Northern technology and/or investments into the state.
The New South
educator, author, political activist, and orator; promoted the idea that African-Americans should pursue economic and educational endeavors before seeking social and political equality.
Booker T. Washington
civil rights leader and college professor who fought for immediate social and political rights for African-Americans.
W.E.B. DuBois
a disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pass a reading and writing test in order to vote.
Literacy Test
Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation.
Plessy v Ferguson
a short lived political party (1892-1908) made up of farmers that were hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites. At the beginning, the party was made up of both whites and African-Americans. Georgian Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party.
Populist Party
African American founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company
Alonzo Herndon
This person helped created Georgia Tech University and was known as the promoter of the International Cotton Exposition
Henry Grady
a disenfranchising tactic that required voters to pay a fee in order to vote.
Poll Tax
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, Georgia.
Leo Frank Case
Group of 3 men that were white supremacists', however they wanted to bring new industries to Georgia such as mining and the use of railroads
Bourbon Triumvirate
Co-Founder of the NAACP. Wanted immediate change and equality for African Americans
W.E.B. DuBois
Born a slave in Walton County in 1858
Owned and operated 3 barbershops in Atlanta in 1904
Started Atlanta Life Insurance Association
Atlanta's first African American millionaire
Alonzo Herndon
Which event resulted in white mobs killing and wounding dozens of blacks, and was caused by Atlanta newspapers' untrue reports that black men were attacking white women?
1906 Atlanta Riot
opposition to, or hatred of, Semites, esp. Jews. appeal: To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.
Antisemitism
a system of racial casting in the South after the Civil War
Jim Crow Laws