Topic 6.4 -new south

Henry Grady

-editor of Atlanta Constitution

-spread idea of “New South” and argued for economic diversity and laissez faire capitalism

cities that contributed to “New South”

Birmingham—> one of the nation’s leading steel producers

Memphis—> center for South’s growing lumber industry

Richmond—> captital of nation’s tobacco industry

Tuskegee Institute in Alabama

-where George Carver, a black scientist, promoted growing peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans

to escape farming just cotton, which was falling in price

Colored Farmers’ National Alliance

-for AA, 250,00 members

-rallied behind political reforms to solve the farmers economic problems

Civil Rights Cases of 1883

-court ruled that Congress could not ban discrimination in railroads, hotels, that are used by the public

Plessy v. Ferguson (1890)

The Court held that segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, provided the separate facilities were equal in quality.

Jim Crow Laws (1870s)

laws that required segregated washrooms, drinking fountains, and other public facilities based on race, enforcing racial discrimination in the South.

literacy tests, poll taxes

-prevented AA from voting

Ida B Wells

-editor of Memphis Free Speech, a black newspaper, who campaigned against lynching and Jim Crow laws

-received death threats and moved her work to north

Booker T Washington

-founded Tuskegee institute, where AA went to school and learned skilled trades

-basically told AA told them to keep on enduring harsh treatment and to accommodate it for time being

-supported Atlanta Compromise

Atlanta Compromise

-belief that blacks and whites shared a responsibility for making their region prosper, AA should be focused on working hard at their jobs and White should support education of AA and some of their rights

WEB Du Bois

-disagreed to Washington

-young AA leader, demanded end to segregation and the granting of equal civil rights to all americans