Survey of U.S. History, 170B February 7, 2013 Life in the Jim Crow South Survey of U.S. History, 170B February 7, 2013 Dr. Daniel Borses

Sharecroppers A landowner’s record book

Exodusters Exodusters Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, a one-time fugitive slave from Tennessee, returned there to promote the "exodus" movement of the late 1870s. Forming a real estate company, Singleton traveled the south recruiting parties of freedmen who were disillusioned with the outcome of Reconstruction. These emigrants, awaiting a Mississippi River boat, looked forward to political equality, freedom from violence, and homesteads in Kansas. (Library of Congress) Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

The Formation of a Black Middle Class Cities like Memphis became home to a Black middle class

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989) “Race Man” lynch laws Thomas Moss lynching Streetcar boycott Black Women's Club Movement National Anti-Lynching Campaign London Anti-Lynching Committee World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago World’s Fair) Watch about 37 minutes, from 4:00 to 41:00 (just past the Chicago World’s Fair) Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) This film is available in the Digital Library on VHS E185.97.W55 I35 1989 Inquire at the Circulation Desk.

Group Work Bring your copy of “Southern Horrors,” either physically or digitally which you can use in order to answer some discussion questions.

Next Time: Topics: The Politics of the Gilded Age Assigned reading: Textbook: Chapter 18