1. 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

2. Sharecroppers
A landowner’s record book

3. 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)
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4. The Formation of a Black Middle Class
Cities like Memphis became home
to a Black middle class

5. 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 ( ) This film is available in the Digital Library on VHS E W55 I Inquire at the Circulation Desk.

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

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