1. The New South

2. Bourbon Triumvirate
From 1870 – 1890 Three leaders led growth in business and industry and were known as the “Bourbon Triumvirate”
They promoted the ideas of white supremacists and segregation.

3. Who were the Bourbon Triumvirate?
1. Joseph E. Brown
John B. Gordon
Alfred H. Colquitt

4. What did the Bourbon Triumvirate do?
These men did not all get along. They were not “working together.”
All governor or US Senator of Georgia.
These three men became very powerful and dominated Georgia.

5. Henry Grady Editor of Atlanta Constitution newspaper.
Wanted to create a “New
South” by developing
industry.

6. International Cotton Exposition
Industrial fairs that drew attention to the state’s cotton textile industry.
The fair was symbolic of Georgia’s rise from Reconstruction to a new age of prosperity! This was promoting investment in the state from Northern companies.

7. Women’s building – Cotton Expo

8. Tom Watson
Led Georgia farmers (Farmer’s Alliance) and won a seat in Congress representing Georgia.
He became leader of the Populist Party.
He supported both races until later in his career.
His greatest accomplishment was the Rural free Delivery mail system.
Populism shook up GA politics until it weakened in the 1890s.
He then changed his views on race and became a white supremacist.

9. Populist Party Lead by Tom Watson Also known as the “People’s Party”
Formed to help farmers and the working class who were upset at railroads, banking and corporations.

10. Rebecca Latimer Felton
Active in politics as her husband’s campaign manager and best known as a writer and campaigner for women’s right to vote.
For 24 hours she replaced Tom Watson (dead) as Senator becoming the first woman to serve as a US senator!
She was a white supremacist and
Thought lynching would protect
White women.

11. 1906 Atlanta Riot
Tension was mounting in GA because of a series of untrue articles about black men attacking white women and the threat of voting being taking away from black men.
On September 22, an Atlanta paper reported that 4 women were assaulted by black men. That night a group of white men attacked a black man.
For the next 4 days race riots broke out all over Atlanta. 10 black men and 2 white men were left dead.
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12. Leo Frank
Jewish New Yorker who ran a pencil factory in Marietta was accused of murdering a 13 year old girl.
Frank was convicted, then kidnapped and hanged.
Most evidence points to Jim Conley, the factory watchman, as the killer.

13. Chapter 19
How were rights denied to African-Americans through Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, disenfranchisement, and racial violence?

14. What were Jim Crow laws?
These laws made it legal to have separate schools, hotels, restaurants, theaters, restrooms, waiting rooms.

15. Examples of Jim Crow laws.
No white nurse could care for a black man.
All forms of public transportation must have separate waiting areas and separate ticket windows for the race.
A seven foot wall must separate the dining sections for whites and blacks in restaurants.
Black men and white men cannot play pool with one another.
A marriage is invalid if one of the person is of another race even until the fourth generation back. Only Malays can marry malays.
Black men can not cut a white woman’s hair.
White baseball teams cannot play of fields that are within 2 blocks of the other races playground for their children.
All circuses must have separate ticket windows and separate section for the races at least 25 feet apart.

16. What was the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
In 1892 a 30 year old man named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the “Whites only” section of a train. He was 7/8 white and 1/8 black.
He took the case to court saying his 13th and 14th amendment rights were violated.
He lost and this case and it confirmed that it was o.k. to have separate facilities as long as the were equal. “Separate but equal” became the norm in the South
Where they equal?

17. What does disenfranchisement mean?
To take away the right to vote.
As the democrats rose to power they found ways to prevent blacks from voting.
How – poll tax, inconvenient registration practices (planting season), racial violence, white primary and literacy tests, grandfather clause.

18. Chapter 20
How did Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, John and Lugenia Burns Hope, and Alonzo Herndon influence Georgia?

19. Booker T. Washington

20. Who was Booker T. Washington?
He believed the equality could be achieved through vocational education.
He accepted social separation & believed African Americans could advance faster through hard work than demanding equal rights.
Former slave.
Founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
In his speech, The Atlanta Compromise, he called for African Americans to accommodate whites until equality could be achieved.

21. W.E.B. DuBois

22. Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
He believed in full rights for African Americans.
Encouraged African Americans to constantly speak out.
Believed in education was the best way to beat prejudice.
Founder of the NAACP
Taught at Atlanta University.

23. Alonzo Herndon

24. Who was Alonzo Herndon? Born a slave. Became a barber.
Founded Atlanta Life Insurance Company.
One of the wealthiest African Americans in Atlanta.
Involved in the NAACP
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