A daughter of two slaves who attended Fisk University and was a teacher and journalist. She was highly anti-lynching and went on a national tour to support it, and so had her…
Categoría: Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson Answer: 1890. Louisiana passed a law that forced African Americans to sit in a separate train cart. Plessy, a 1/8 African American man, got himself purposefully arrested by buying…
A device used by southern states to disenfranchise African Americans. It restricted voting to those whose grandfathers had voted before 1867.
A device used by southern states to disenfranchise African Americans. It restricted voting to those whose grandfathers had voted before 1867. Answer: Grandfather Clause
A fee of several dollars that had to be paid before a person could vote; a device used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting.
A fee of several dollars that had to be paid before a person could vote; a device used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting. Answer: Poll Tax
Wilmington Insurrection
Wilmington Insurrection Answer: Democratic Party white supremacists illegally seized power and overturned the elected government in Wilmington, North Carolina. Led by Alfred Waddell, who was defeated in 1878 as the congressional incumbent…
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote.
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social,…
A method to deny blacks (and poor whites) right to vote during the Jim Crow Era by requiring reading or civics test in order to vote. Could be selectively applied. Prohibited by the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
A method to deny blacks (and poor whites) right to vote during the Jim Crow Era by requiring reading or civics test in order to vote. Could be selectively applied. Prohibited by…
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation Answer: 1915 film about Civil War and arisal of KKK. first time a film impacted society in such a way like this film. had a certain vision to…
A black laborer in Georgia who killed his boss in self-defense in 1899. He was seized by a white mob and chained to a tree and tortured. While still alive, he was doused with kerosene and set on fire. A crowd watched the horror «with unfeigning satisfaction.» This was a flagrant example of southern lynchings of blacks at the turn of the twentieth century.
A black laborer in Georgia killed his boss in self-defense in 1899. He was seized by a white mob and chained to a tree and tortured. While still alive, he was doused…