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Mississippi Plan Grandfather clause Plessy v. Ferguson “Birth of a Nation” Strange Fruit. Ida B. Wells Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois NAACP Marcus Garvey. Key Terms. Political Representation. The Mississippi Plan Poll Tax Literary Competency Tests Residency Requirements

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  1. Mississippi Plan Grandfather clause Plessy v. Ferguson “Birth of a Nation” Strange Fruit Ida B. Wells Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois NAACP Marcus Garvey Key Terms

  2. Political Representation • The Mississippi Plan • Poll Tax • Literary Competency Tests • Residency Requirements • Grandfather Clause (From Louisiana) • Poor whites • Gerrymandering

  3. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissent Separate but equal Segregation

  4. Share Crop System • 90% 1900 • Peonage • 85% 1910 • Land ownership

  5. Attitudes on Race • Cartoons • “White Man’s Burden” • Birth of a Nation • Lynching

  6. The Birth of a Nation 1915 • D.W. Griffith • James S. Pike The Prostrate State 1874 • Birth of a Race

  7. Lynching

  8. A photograph of a lynching led to the poem “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol…

  9. In 1939 Billie Holliday recorded her musical rendition…

  10. 1900-1930 3,714 “Reported” Lynchings • GA 302 • MISS 258 • TX 201 • LA 172 • FL 170 • ALA 132,

  11. Ida B. Wells • Memphis school teacher • Southern Horrors 1892 • NAACP anti-lynching campaign • No federal anti-lynching law

  12. Booker T. Washington • Up From Slavery • Atlanta Exposition of 1895 • Accomodationist • Tuskegee Institute

  13. W.E.B. Du Bois • The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 • Talented tenth • NAACP

  14. Marcus Garvey • United Negro Improvement Association • The Negro World • Blackstar Steamship Line

  15. WWI

  16. The Great Migration • 1910: 75% rural, 90% southern • 1960: 75% urban, 50% northern • “Pushes”: • Economics • Boll weevil • Floods • Racial tension, violence • “Pulls”: • Employment • Encouragement from the North • New generation

  17. The “Promised Land” • Chicago (1910-1920): 44,000-110,000 • Cleveland (1910-1920): 8,000-34,000 • White resistance: • Economy • Limited housing • The ghettoization of the North

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