HUSH: Part 18 - The New South and the New West

Lost Cause Narrative

Southern whites' view of secession as a noble "lost cause."

A revisionist version of history that glamorized plantation culture and insisted that the Civil War had little to do with slavery and everything to do with a defense of states' rights from the Republican party and the "War of Northern Aggression."

Redeemers

Post-Civil War Democratic leaders who supposedly saved the South from Yankee domination and preserved the primarily rural economy.

Textile Industry

commercial production of thread, fabric, and clothing from raw cotton mills in New England during the first half of the nineteenth century, and later in the South in the late nineteenth century.

Crop-lien System

credit system used by sharecroppers and share tenants who pledged portion ("share") of their future crop to local merchants or land owners in exchange or farming supplies and food.

Mississippi Plan

series of state constitutional amendments that sought to severely disenfranchise black voters and were quickly adopted by other southern states.

- First, permanent (two years) residence required for voting

- Second, disqualified African Americans from voting if they were convicted of certain crimes.

- Third, required poll taxes to be paid to vote, which disproportionately affected poor black and white citizens.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

underlying legal racial segregation

court case in which 1/4 black man sued after being arrested for sitting in the whites-only section.

Brown v. Board of Education

court case in which the separate but equal policies were abolished.

Jim Crow Laws

laws that legally discriminated against blacks and whites, and followed with 1,880 lynchings between 1890 and 1899.

Wilmington Insurrection

racially charged mob attack of the majority black Wilmington, North Carolina in 1989.

Ida B. Wells

First woman to file suit against public racial discrimination by publishing statistics about lynching and aided the NAACP

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

WEB Du Bois

First African American to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard, also co-founded the NAACP.

Booker T. Washington

African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality.

Atlanta Compromise

a speech by Booker T Washington that called for the black community to strive for education and vocational training to create economic prosperity before attempting political and social equality

Exodusters

African Americans who migrated West from the South in search of haven from racism and poverty after the collapse of Radical Republican rule.