1. The New South
AP US History

2. The New South
- Remains agricultural based on cotton farming, dependent on cheap labor (sharecropping and tenant farming by poor blacks and whites) - Only a few pockets of industrialization despite attempts to industrialize the “New South” – post Racism: Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), limited economic opportunity - Voting Restrictions: literacy test, poll tax, Grandfather Clause, Solid South (Democrats only) - Violence: lynchings, KKK

3. Ida wells

4. Booker t. washington Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895) Accommodation?
Tuskegee Institute
Technical/Vocational Training

5. W.E.b. DuBois “Talented Tenth” Niagara Movement
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) – 1909
The Crisis
Later Life

6. Practice questions SAQ Question
1) What was a similarity in the responses of African American leaders to the problems that existed in the New South?
2) What was a difference in the responses of African American leaders to the problems that existed in the New South?
3) What was the reason for either the similarity or the difference?
Discussion Question: Who had the best approach?
Practice Complexity (Synthesis): The responses of African American leaders to the problems of the New South in the late 1800s/early 1900s was like … because …